Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time.
"A stunning graphic memoir...a wholly original achievement in the form." —The New York Times
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming
Product details
Publisher : Pantheon; Media tie-in edition (Oct. 30 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375714839
ISBN-13 : 978-0375714832
Item weight : 641 g
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.35 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #38,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#3 in Women in Islam
#16 in Iranian History
#22 in Historical Graphic Novels
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