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Summary: A wonderful book...
Comment: It's not only a great story, but it also is complimented by the visuals. This book is extra special to me because i can relate to a lot of what she went through during her years in europe. When she says she feels like a foreigner out of her country and in her country. It's just a great read. Now I want to watch the movie.
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Summary: Well-Written and Well-Illustrated Autobiography Set During the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Comment: This is a wonderfully written and illustrated autobiographical work which follows the life of one girl as she becomes a woman during the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The illustrations make excellent use of the comic book medium: some panels deliver humorous, tragic or insightful material merely through the subtleties of the artwork. The story moves forward without distraction and sidebars only add to the work. The author does not spare herself criticism and reveals the evolution of her thinking through the mistakes she made along the journey.
Occasionally, this book presents very grown-up material which is relevant but which may be a too much for younger readers.
In short, this is a very funny yet deadly serious work that I am very happy to have found. "Persepolis" would make an excellent book club choice.
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Summary: great comic
Comment: i got this for my wife as a gift. She had seen the movie and loved it. The comic has the same criteria but is broken down into small sections and makes an in depth journal.
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Summary: An excelent book, a work of art
Comment: I saw the movie first and thought it was very good, a real eye opener and even thought its a dramatic story, you get a few laughs...but the book (as it often happens) goes much deeper into the story (and has some extra laughs).....I loved it...even if you don't like to read a lot...it's a comic, so it's quite easy to read.
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Summary: PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi
Comment: Persepolis, originally published in two volumes, is an autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian expatriate Marjane Satrapi. It chronicles her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, her coming of age in Austria, her return to Iran and her second departure, to France, after her failed marriage.
Satrapi's black and white art is thick-lined, simple and spare, and it fits the book well. The vignettes of everyday life she presents are fascinating, because of Western unfamiliarity and because of her tremendous openness and honesty.
Ultimately, Persepolis is an engaging, many-layered work that gives an honest, revealing view of a way of life that most Westerners are extremely unfamiliar with.
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