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.

'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. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine Best Comix of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best Seller Delectable. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelmans Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing.

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