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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... read more
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“I wanted to be a prophet...”
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“I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”
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“My faith was not unshakable.”
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“It was funny to see how much Marx and God looked like each other. Thought Marx's hair was a bit curlier.”
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First Sentence
This is me when I was 10 years old. This was in 1980.
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- Marjane Satrapi (Author)
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