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Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
(Paperback, 2004)
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The critics made the inevitable comparisons to MAUS when reviewing this graphic novel-style memoir. ...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 037571457X
ISBN-13: 9780375714573
Jun 2004
Publisher: Random House Inc
153 pages
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Synopsis
The critics made the inevitable comparisons to MAUS when reviewing this graphic novel-style memoir. But this deeply personal child's-eye view of Iran during the fall of the Shah deserves to be considered in its own right. Marjane Satrapi is related both to the old Persian royal family and to Communist rebels. Therefore, it's not surprising that she was raised a sheltered child of privilege and educated to be independent-minded. Unfortunately, the unpleasant realities of life in '70s and '80s Iran--violent demonstrations, imprisonment and executions of relatives and family friends, bombings by Iraq--continually keep intruding into that sheltered life. And neither the repressive regime of the Shah nor the even more repressive fundamentalist Islamic regime that follows is a good place for an independent mind to speak out. Despite Marjane's deep love for and loyalty to her country, does she truly belong there anymore? The black-and-white illustrations, reminiscent of woodcuts, manage to be both childlike and sophisticated and work intimately with the text to provide both a physical and emotional landscape.
| Size | | Length: | 153 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Marjane Satrapi's PERSEPOLIS is the latest and one of the most delectable examples of a booming postmodern genre: autobiography by comic book....Contemporary American cartoonists tend often to operate in a twilight zone of ironically diminished expectation [while] PERSEPOLIS, by contrast, dances with drama and insouciant wit."
New York Times Book Review - Fernanda Eberstadt (05/11/2003)
"[Satrapi] is such a talented artist and her black-and-white drawings are so captivating, it seems wrong to call her memoir a comic book....What Satrapi hopes to do is defend her country, and her beguiling memoir should accomplish that for many readers."
Nation - Gloria Emerson (06/16/2003)
"[I]mplacably witty and fearless."
New York Review of Books - Patricia Storace (04/07/2005)
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