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Embroideries

By Marjane Satrapi

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| Paperback | 9780375714672

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From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends andContinue

From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.

As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances.

Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere—and to teach us all a thing or two.

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  • Tea and adversity

    Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi 144pp, Jonathan Cape, £12.99 The time: the early 1990s. The place: a well-appointed house in Tehran. A formal luncheon party is just coming to an end. After the man of the house has complimented his wife on the food, h ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A subversive sisterhood

    Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Jonathan Cape £12.99, pp144 This book's title and its cover image of a girl admiring herself in an old-fashioned mirror, imply that it is going to be warm, wise, witty - and twee - but Marjane Satrapi has not, thankful ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • i was suspicious of an edifying book, while it's a lamentation, masked as fun, on the pitiful life of women in iran, which menacingly resembles italy in the fifties.

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    Elsastella said on Mar 28, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • " To speak behind other's back is the ventlatior of the heart." Well said Grandma!

    What could be better? my heart is ventlated..:)

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    Miss S said on Sep 5, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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