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There is only one place for a creative editor in a glossy magazine! And it should be the hooligan and wildly talented Rita! But the pedantic intellectual Elmira is also aiming for this place, ready to do anything for the coveted position. The boss sets a condition: Whoever finds out what the most secretive Nobel laureate chemist Naryshkin is working on will win. Rita, posing as a pedantic spinster, gets a job as a housekeeper in his house…
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As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.