Persepolis (Libro + DVD)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788817025270 (8817025275)
Publish date: November 2008
Publisher: BUR
Pages no: 96
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Iran
Series: Persepolis (#1)
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...
At the age of 6, she was sure she was the last prophet. When I read this, it put a smile on my face, this was a girl who had a dream, she saw the world around her and saw her place in it. This was Satrapi, an Iranian girl who lived in Iran before the revolution. When at the age at 10, she was told t...
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 ...
The Complete Persepolis - which I think actually compiles two novels, Persepolis and its sequel Persepolis 2 - is an autobiographical graphic novel telling the story of Marjane, a girl who grows up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The story, as Satrapi mentions in her preface, is in part a cor...
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