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  • Fascinating, moving and brilliantly drawn. Of extra interest to me as my first boyfriend and his family were in Tehran at the time this story takes place.

    

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• ― goldtop said on Oct 11, 2007 about the Boxset edition| Add your feedback

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  • Life in Iran

  • A moving story about Iran and its people, the war, revolution and religious dictatorship seen through the eyes of a girl who dreams about Iron Maiden and sexual emancipation of the West. This amazing autobiography is a real pleasure to read, and finally gives justice to all the Iranians who fought a ... Continue

    A moving story about Iran and its people, the war, revolution and religious dictatorship seen through the eyes of a girl who dreams about Iron Maiden and sexual emancipation of the West. This amazing autobiography is a real pleasure to read, and finally gives justice to all the Iranians who fought and died for the freedom of their country and the end of religious repression.

    

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  • commovente, buffo, istruttivo, illuminante e triste...mille e mille grazie a Marjane per aver condiviso la sua storia con noi lettori

    

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• ― Dr. Frankensteen said on Feb 11, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Much more brighter than Maus, and yet deeply moving, Persepolis is a great biography. It teaches us more about Iran and Iranian women than any news report can possibly do.
    It's easy to come to the end with a smile, though it's impossible to imagine how hard can be survive a country like that, n ... Continue

    Much more brighter than Maus, and yet deeply moving, Persepolis is a great biography. It teaches us more about Iran and Iranian women than any news report can possibly do.
    It's easy to come to the end with a smile, though it's impossible to imagine how hard can be survive a country like that, not to mention the tears and the victims.

    

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• ― Gekko P. said on Oct 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Un capolavoro.

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• ― sonia.c (paquita) said on Jun 7, 2009 about the Boxset edition| Add your feedback

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  • Un'autobiografia arricchita dalla storia dell'Iran.
    I disegni passano ogni emozione.
    Interessante, ironico, triste, divertente.

    

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• ― Pergamena said on Apr 23, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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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