My 16 year old daughter is in her first year at Gymnasium, doing the International Baccalaureate program. Along with this comes a pretty heavy emphasis on English language literature, and there's a very long list, some 20 pages, of reading material that the teachers get to pick from. She's just got ...
61. THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS, BY MARJANE SATRAPIRecommended by Mary, on Goodreads. I wasn’t really planning on including graphic novels in this challenge, since I consider them a different medium than books without drawings (?) but I didn’t tell her that when I asked for recommendations, and after sh...
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 ...
I liked Persepolis. Beautiful drawings, hilarious jokes and facts about the fundamentalists and Iran's government and some perhaps good political dialogs and information for someone who hasn't known them already. I laughed and cried several times.But as she grows up, I didn't find her as a strong au...
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...
The first time I started reading this novel, I put it down after a couple of chapters of Marjane's early childhood. I still maintain that the first chunk of the book was the boring part, full of long expository dialogue from the father educating Marjane and the audience on Iranian politics, and not ...
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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