Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return
Satrapi, Marjane
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BOOK SUMMARY
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 conti
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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 and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.
Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.
As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing uphere compounded by Marjanes status as an outsider both abroad and at homeit is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Persepolis 2 is much more than the chronicle of a young womans struggle into adulthood; its a brilliant, painful, rendering of the contrast between East and West, between the repression of wartime Iran and the social, political, and sexual freedoms of 1980s Austria. Theres something universal about Satrapis search for self-definition, but her experiences in Vienna and Tehran are rendered with such witty particularity, and such heartbreaking honesty, that by the end of this book youll feel youve gained an intimate friend."--Julie Orringer, author of How To Breathe Underwater
"Marjane Satrapi's books are a revelation. They're funny, they're sad, they're hugely readable. Most importantly, they remind you that the media sometimes tell you the facts but rarely tell you the truth. In one afternoon Persepolis will teach you more about Iran, about being an outsider, about being human, than you could learn from a thousand hours of television documentaries and newspaper articles. And you will remember it for a very long time."--Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
From the Hardcover edition.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375714669
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375714665
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 955.05/42/092
Library of Congress: 2003070699
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 187
Paper Weight (lb): .69 lb
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