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In a way, Persia in its heyday was the envy of the world. Persepolis is the symbol of this status, and its ghost haunts the pages of Satrapi’s story. Persia’s auspicious history instills a sense of pride in Persepolis’s characters and produces a strong sense of nationalism within Marji. But this national pride is complicated by the shame ...
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Full Book Summary. Marjane “Marji” Satrapi is an intelligent, spirited, and very modern girl living with her parents in Iran’s capital of Tehran during the eventful period of Iranian history from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. In Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marji’s remembers her life ...
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Apr 29, 2003 · 209,938 ratings12,015 reviews. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed ...
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Persepolis is a collection of autobiographical comics about the life of Marjane Satrapi before and after the Iranian Revolution.Originally published as the first two parts of a four-part series in France between 2000–2003, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood follows in the footsteps of the influential graphic novel Maus by using the format to depict and discuss serious historical events.
May 13, 2015 · Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Marjane Satrapi's memoir of a childhood spent—in a well-off and left-liberal family—amid the upheavals of the Iranian Revolution has become a contemporary classic. What are the sources of its success? Persepolis has a very literary structure, for one: it takes…
Key Facts about Persepolis. Full Title: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. When Written: 1999. Where Written: France. When Published: 2003 (in English) Genre: Graphic Novel; Memoir. Setting: Mostly Tehran. Climax: The bombing of the Baba-Levy home. Antagonist: The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Like Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, I left Iran in 1984. When I discovered this two-part graphic novel, I felt catapulted back into my own childhood. Written as a memoir, the first book begins with a young Marjane sitting in her elementary school class, a veil covering her head, introducing her classmates (also wearing veils) to the reader. In an almost magical way, she begins to ...
