
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. She is also the author of several children's books. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis is Satrapis visual memoir of coming. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis. The internationally bestselling masterpiece of graphic literature.

She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the French school, before leaving for Vienna and Strasbourg to study decorative arts. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.Įdgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom- Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today. Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. 352 pages Pantheon Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapis best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapis. Book Review of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Vintage Books, 2008 Book Review by K.S.

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 Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming-both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

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