Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Jan 20, 2010 Biography, History, Image based, Women's Literature
Moving without being sentimental or cliched, painfully honest to the point of brutality without being gratuitous, this book is basically perfect. The artwork is simple but somehow very, very expressive and this is a side of Iranian life you never get to see – it’s easy to be sort of informed if you keep up with news sources, but it’s usually in the aftermath of violence that anyone stops to ask regular Iranians what they think, and what their lives are like. The answers might surprise you.
Synopsis: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman’s classic Maus. Set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, it follows the young Satrapi, six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witnesses first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with Iraq have on her home, family and school.
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