
Author Azar Nafisi says books can help you really live
NPR's Book of the Day
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The Republic of Gilead by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood used all facts to shape her dystopian novel, says Azhar Nafisi. "She makes it come alive for you so that when I experienced it simultaneously was experiencing my life at the Islamic Republic," she adds. Baldwin believed there is this realm of culture that is not just political but existential and we all as human beings share this common humanity in the best and the worst sense of the world.,"I'm absolutely and unconditionally in love with Baldwin."
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