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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. Their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading.