Peggy Frew's novel of dysfunctional sisters is ultimately uplifting
- Written by: Debra Adelaide, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
Pawel Szmanski/Unsplash, CC BYIn her hybrid critical memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi poses a knotty question regarding the spell of problematic books such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.
A novel of shockingly egregious thoughts and actions, in which a 12-year-old girl is sexually abused and exploited in other ways, Lolita...
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