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Vydayuschiysya dokumentalnyy roman, zasluzhenno poluchivshiy mirovuyu populyarnost. Kniga o tom, kak politika vtorgaetsya v lichnuyu zhizn cheloveka, i o zhazhde svobody, kotoruyu nevozmozhno unichtozhit. Pravdivaya istoriya, napolnennaya porazitelnymi detalyami, – vzglyad iznutri na suschestvovanie v strane-izgoe.

Azar Nafisi, doch byvshego mera Tegerana, poluchivshaya obrazovanie v Amerike, vozvraschaetsya na rodinu, chtoby prepodavat iranskim studentam zarubezhnuyu literaturu. Islamskaya revolyutsiya rushit vse plany, i zanyatiya prevraschayutsya v taynye sobraniya. V to vremya kak strazhi poryadka ustraivayut reydy po vsey strane, fundamentalisty zahvatyvayut universitety, a tsenzura dushit iskusstvo, devushki v gostyah u Nafisi bezboyaznenno snimayut hidzhaby i vdohnovenno pogruzhayutsya v miry Dzheyn Ostin, Frensisa Skotta Fitsdzheralda i Vladimira Nabokova. «Zybkaya nerealnost» proishodyaschego prevraschaetsya v feericheskiy prazdnik lyubvi k literature.