why is the setting important

I think the very theocratic and conservative government affects the setting greatly. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi is a national best-seller and a global phenomenon. Chronicling Nafisi's time as a female professor of Western Literature at the University of Tehran in the 1970s, her expulsion from the university for her refusal to wear a veil, and her secret, devoted teaching of a few female students in her own home, the novel weaves together personal anecdotes with depictions of the large-scale impact of the Iranian Revolution and Iraq-Iran War.