The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture
 

The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture

by Marjane Satrapi

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.

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... (read more)

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Bridget B
  • Rated 4 stars

Graphic novels are weirdly effective.

Or at least the two that I've read have been.

They turn the normal reader/writer dynamic on its head. Rather than leaving the reader to imagine the visuals, the writer of the graphic novel leaves the reader to imagine the details, to connect the dots and fill in the story.

Persepolis presents us with the memoir of a young girl who, in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, is sent to Europe to attend high school.

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Corby A
  • Rated 2 stars

The writer's story of her childhood and teen years became more interesting as I progressed through the book. I'm not that impressed with the monochromatic illustrations and the rough, dull paper.

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