![]() ![]() ![]() It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming -both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic book makes it totally unique and indispensable ( Time). Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran. ![]()
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