This has been on my TBR for years, but I kept putting off reading it until I knew I could get both volumes to read. It's also my first non-fiction graphic novel. This isn't really a review, just rambling.Reading Persepolis was, for me, kind of like reading Anne Frank's diary. We learned way more abo...
A graphic-novel-style memoir about the author's childhood during the Iranian Revolution, this book seems written largely to educate Westerners about Iran. It is an episodic story focusing on how current events affected the author and her progressive family. This focus seems to have worked well for m...
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. I love that this is told from Satrapi's point of view. It allows us to see a child's perspective of life during a revolution. There are vast differences between her home life and public life. We see how it ...
Persepolis is the powerful story of the author's childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi tells her story in black and white comic form, and the single-color graphics make the story stronger. As a descendant of the former emperor of Iran, Satrapi's family was wealthy: she attended ...
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a memoir of a wealthy and sheltered childhood interrupted by revolution. Told through the lens of a eleven year old child, this book focuses on the 1980s revolution in Iran. The black and white illustrations tell the story as much as the words do. I just wish the boo...
I read this book as part of a reading challenge, I don't typically read graphic novels. This book was haunting and jarring. It is told from the viewpoint of the author as a child. A child trying to understand the changes in Iran during the revolution and war with Iraq. The story and pictures ...
Persepolis is Marjan Sartrapi's memoir written as a graphic novel. Sartrapi decided to write a book that told how her life was changed from day to night as a child by the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She recounts confusion and disbelief as she was forced to wear a veil, attend a separate school from...
Told in the form of a graphic novel, Persepolis, is the autobiography of Marji Satrapi between the ages of 9-14. The great-granddaughter of the last emperor of Iran, and daughter of Communists, she was poised to have a very interesting view of the Iranian revolutions that shaped the nation into what...
A blurb on the back described this "graphic memoir" as the "Persian love child of Art Spiegelman and Lynda Barry." Through childlike simple and whimsical black-and-white comic strips Marjane Satrapi gives us her memoir of what it was like growing up in Iran's Islamic Revolution from the ages of six ...
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is my very first graphic novel. Imagine my joy when I foudn a copy at the local library! I didn't think they had graphic novels there, and now I discover they have both Persepolis and Persepolis 2.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's childhood in Teheran from six to fou...
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