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Azar Nafisi Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

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I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)

Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

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