It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.Įdgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom - Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today. 352 pages Pantheon Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapis best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapis. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming - both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable" ( Time ). Crossing the borders and breaking the barriers of thoughts and ideas enables writers in exile to see with a different set of lenses using exile’s situation to practice criticism. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir "of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran. Inspired by Satrapi’s living in exile, her performance in The Complete Persepolis is the embodiment of a discursive manifestation of women and culture.
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