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The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness by Lila Azam Zanganeh; Norton, 228 pages ($23.95). This is the first book by the Iranian- born writer and longtime resident of Paris who has, among other things, taught at Harvard. It isn't exactly presented as a debut likely to pass through the literary gates unnoticed. One of its blurbs is by a Nobel Prize winner (Orhan Pamuk), another is by the international writer whose name is synonymous with the threatening divide between a Western literature of delight and Middle Eastern fundamentalist intolerance (Salman Rushdie).
Zanganeh's fellow Iranian Azar Nafisi -- author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" -- is there to call Zanganeh's book "a work of genuine originality, intimate and alluring." Rounding out an altogether neon-lit back cover flap is no less than Dimitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov's venerable son, who celebrates Zanganeh's "elegant, personal, highly accessible style," which, he's delighted to note, doesn't mimic that of his late father.See the full content of this document
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