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Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times

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    Running Time: 08:30 hrs
    Narrator: Azar Nafisi
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 08:30 hrs
    Narrator: Azar Nafisi
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Nafisi, Azar
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2022
    Summary:

    Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi Azar explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more.

    Genre:
    Literary arts
    Subject(s): Criticism | Literature and society
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781799953180, 1799953181, 9781799953197