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Refugees from this event struggle to adapt to the US in the novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects. A group of women discuss their disillusionment with this event in the “Gatsby” section of a book which also (20[1])includes sections (20[1])on (20[1])Jane Austen (20[1])and Henry (20[1])James. (20[1])In a different book, the protagonist’s uncle Anoosh (20[2])is executed after this event (20[2])before (20[1])she is sent to boarding (20[1])school in (20[1])(*) Vienna. In a 2003 (10[1])novel, (10[1])a professor starts teaching a literature class after this event covering subversive novels like those of Nabokov. A girl enjoys rock (10[1])music and Western fashion (10[1])in a (10[1])graphic novel memoir (10[1])set after this event. (10[3])For 10 points, name this regime change (10[2])depicted in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Azar (10[2])Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. ■END■ (10[8])

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