Best-known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Bookswhich electrified readers with its incisive exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny Nafisi takes audiences on a journey inside a culture, speaking out against authoritarianism and repression. Nafisi appears on the heels of her January 2012 release, That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile.