{"product_id":"the-republic-of-imagination","title":"The Republic of Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eA passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people’s lives, by the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e was for Iran, \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is for America.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—\u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,\u003c\/i\u003e among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.","brand":"Viking Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42994276565072,"sku":"9780670026067B","price":13.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-republic-of-imagination","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}