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Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2) (2004, Pantheon)

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2)

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Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of …

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 2 (2004, Jonathan Cape)

Persepolis 2

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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 story.

In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism …