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A New York Times Remarkable Book
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Smart, humorous, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s picture memoir of rising up in Iran all over the Islamic Revolution.
In tough black-and-white sketch pictures, Satrapi tells the tale of her lifestyles in Tehran from a long time six to 14, years that noticed the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating results of struggle with Iraq. The clever and outspoken simplest kid of dedicated Marxists and the nice-granddaughter of certainly one of Iran’s ultimate emperors, Marjane bears witness to a early life uniquely entwined with the historical past of her us of a.
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of day-to-day lifestyles in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions among house lifestyles and public lifestyles. Marjane’s kid’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution permits us to be informed as she does the historical past of this attention-grabbing us of a and of her personal ordinary circle of relatives. Intensely non-public, profoundly political, and utterly unique, Persepolis is without delay a tale of rising up and a reminder of the human value of struggle and political repression. It displays how we feature on, with laughter and tears, within the face of absurdity. And, after all, it introduces us to an impossible to resist little lady with whom we can not lend a hand however fall in love.
