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| Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood | 
 enlarge | Author: Marjane Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  172 reviews
Sales Rank: 2355
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 037571457X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5944
EAN: 9780375714573
ASIN: 037571457X
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 BRAVO MS. SATRAPI May 22, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Although my French is not that good, I purchased all three volumes of Persepolis while I was in Paris (I wasn't sure if it had been translated to English) and read them all in one day! This interesting and adorable book pulls you in from the very start and keeps you interested until the end. So much so that you wish that the story of Marji would just keep going. I highly recommend this to all Iranians and non/Iranians alike. Particulary those women who experienced life in Iran and then left for another country at an early age. It's a MUST READ.
Shahrzad Sepanlou
Wonderful, alternative memoir May 30, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Challenged by reading traditional memoirs that only give you a vague sense of what it's like to live in a foreign land? Look no more! Marjane Satrapi's book about growing up during the Iranian revolution is engaging, witty, well drawn and something you'll finish in one sitting. Ms. Satrapi finds the common thread of everyone's childhood (her recollection of wanting to grow up to be a prophet is hilarious) but also expresses her unique voice and identity as the daughter of liberal Iranians whose views ended up being thwarted by the new regime that was ushered in following the 1979 revolution. Even if you don't have an interest in Iranian history/politics, I guarantee you'll love this book!
 The Emperor's New Clothes December 9, 2004
13 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is the case of the emperor's new clothes. Personal stories from the Middle East are comparatively few in the U.S. and as this one is in an "accessible" graphic novel form, everyone is gushing over it. However, the visual storytelling staggers forward and the primitive graphic style makes it hard to distinguish characters and to form a connection with them, especially the girls. If you want to read a compelling, heart-wrenching, as well as educational graphic novel about the Middle East, go to "Palestine" by Joe Sacco instead.
Maus for our generation May 29, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Being an American woman roughly Marjane's age, I grew up knowing nearly nothing of the conflict in the Middle East, certainly not understanding it. This work fantastically illustrates all that happened in Iran (a lot!) in the late twentieth century, and how a teenage girl came to understand it and form her own opinions. It is extremely well-told and illustrated. I read the book in one setting and anxiously await the next two volumes to be translated into English. For any fan of graphic novels, I highly recommend this one.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' for today's world August 23, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
'Persepolis' is an astonishing retelling of the author's youth during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Gross horrors occur including bombings, murders, arrests and riots but what is so extraordinary about Marjane Satrapi's story is how otherwise it is so ordinary. She experiments with cigarettes, listens to punk music and hangs posters on her walls -- all the trimmings of an American adolescent's life. This gives 'Persepolis' a universal appeal, an accessability that makes the differences all the more shocking. The stark reality that Satrapi and her family live in constant danger is effecting, and it will not leave you when you put the book down. The style Satrapi uses in her drawings clearly sets the tone of her story. There is a childish innocence to the illustrations perfectly suited to the worldview of our narrator, herself a child at the beginning. Her gradual awakening to the ways of the world has all of the truth and optimism that make 'To Kill a Mockingbird' the classic it is today. 'Persepolis' earns its place among stories like that and 'The Catcher in the Rye'. I would highly recommend it to anyone, and can't wait for the sequel.
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