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Marjane Satrapi
An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran.
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Tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic…
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Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.
The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up…
From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric…
This book paints a portrait of daily life in Iran and of the contradictions between home life and public life.
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A collaboration of activists, artists, journalists, and academics working together to depict the historic uprising - with comics that show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran…
Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution–now available in one volume–has been transferred to the big screen in…
Originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2 by L'Association … in 2000 and 2001, respectively –Copyright page.
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In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran’s celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. He decides that life is…
Here, an attractive boxed set of Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran…. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story…
Persepolis ended in a cliffhanger in 1984, just as 14 year old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war in Iraq to begin a…
An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi–the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor–bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country…
The great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran–a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public…
Funny and heartbreaking, this eagerly awaited sequel to Satrapi’s memoir-in-comic-strips Persepolis about her Iranian adolescence and about the life of her entire nation continues with the same dazzling combination of…
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book’s stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and - perfectly captured in Satrapi’s simple, beguiling drawings - reveal…
In Embroideries, Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice. Now she turns that same keen eye to the heartrending story of…
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Persepolis nos cuentala revolucion islamica irani vista…
The third volume of Marjane Satrapi’s excellent autobiographical work shows her experiencing a new life in Austria after fleeing Iran. Western decadence, alcohol, sex, drugs and rock n roll and…
Heather Lee Schroeder
Reviewers do not always know quite how to approach Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis. Is it a memoir? A novel? A comic book? Ultimately, while one can debate the category…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace. This concise study guide includes plot summary…
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Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, as well as her self-imposed exile from her native country, through comic strips that reflect…
Dave Eggers
Compiled by Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, this collection highlights the very best of this year’s fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs and more ( OK…
Katrin Weiss
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Gattungen, Note: 2,0, Universitat Rostock (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Handelt es sich bei Marjane Satrapis Persepolis um eine Autobiografie? Und wenn…
