Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | Marjane Satrapi | A teenager's memory of revolution and war . . .

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	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2004 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 170 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

excellent

it was written in one of the best way to show the means to every body.

A teenager's memory of revolution and war . . .

Readers of the graphic novel "Maus" will find themselves in familiar territory with volume I of Marjane Satrapi's autobiography. Here a tumultuous and violent period of recent political history is told with both horror and humor. And told from a child's point of view, it is deeply personalized, so that we see both the broad outline of a revolution and a war, and their impact on the lives of individual people. Meanwhile, there is the business of growing up, which takes place no matter what happens, and our young heroine demonstrates all the trials and tribulations of becoming a teenager in the midst of a world that is being turned upside down.

While the book is a quick read - and suitable for readers young and old - there is much in it to ponder long afterward. For those who know little of what life has been like for Iranians living in the Islamic Republic, especially during the 1980s, the years of Khomeini and the war with Iraq, this book will begin to fill in some gaps in history, particularly as an understanding of Iran becomes increasingly important today. Also recommended: Roya Hakakian's "Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran."

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very nice

This is probably the first graphic novel i have read in my life...well i did read something we use to call "comics" but i think this has a bit different style. Given that I myself not being persian, but i know plenty of persians..i can't believe how similar it can be...it seems like i am seeing some of my friend's life in there..

A Must Read for People of All Ages!

A memoir unlike any other I've ever read, Satrapi's story comes across in the pages of a vividly crafted graphic novel, another form of writing I have only recently discovered. The black and white images of Satrapi's early childhood emphasize her feeling of entrapment under an oppressive Islamic regime. Forced to shed all traces of individuality and Western culture, Satrapi finds that even her outspoken, activist parents can't save her from the fate of their country and the reality of her departure to Austria. Harrowing images of destruction and death, mixed with uplifting and humorous interludes of happiness and hope, mark this unique graphic novel. Confined by prescribed gender roles and expectations of social class in Iran, "Persepolis" reminds me of other narratives like Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Azar Nafisi's "Lolita in Tehran" that shed light on the experiences of young people growing up in the face of fundamentalism and extremist mentalities.
Yet unlike these stories, Satrapi's autobiographical text seems more powerful in the way it's presented to readers in the graphic novel!

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