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Persepolis 2

The Story of a Return

By Marjane Satrapi

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| Paperback | 9780375714665

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In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating storContinue

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.

Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.

As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up—here compounded by Marjane’s status as an outsider both abroad and at home—it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

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  • Less of your lipgloss

    Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi Jonathan Cape £12.99, pp192 Marjane Satrapi's comic-strip autobiographies are in black and white, but the stories she tells are ambiguous and grey. Her first volume ended with her parents sending ... (read full critics)

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

  • Persepolis 2 By Marjane Satrapi

    More grim than scary is Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi's impressive follow-up to her popular and highly acclaimed memoir-as-graphic-novel, Persepolis (2003). Volume two starts as Marjane, age 14, leaves Iran for high school in Vienna. Homesick, she re ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • Another captivating book by Satrapi. I could not stop reading, I just kept turning page after page. The author definitely had an interesting life and to share it with the world let us glimpse something many of us would never understand, except through her eyes. I am glad that I read these books as i ... (continue)

    Another captivating book by Satrapi. I could not stop reading, I just kept turning page after page. The author definitely had an interesting life and to share it with the world let us glimpse something many of us would never understand, except through her eyes. I am glad that I read these books as it has enlightened me on a few subjects. I really recommend the reading of both of this and the first installment, as they show us a world that we might not be able to see. There are some real series subjects, but a really great read.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 192 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0375714669
  • ISBN-13: 9780375714665
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Pub date: Aug 02, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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