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Translators. Blake Ferris, Mattias Ripa, Anjali Singh. Persepolis is a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood and early adult years in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title Persepolis is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. [1]
Jun 17, 2021 · Updated - June 17, 2021 at 01:56 PM. Marjane Satrapi’s cult comic ‘Persepolis’ on a young Iranian girl negotiating teenage in the midst of war has been translated into Hindi. By Aditya...
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Jun 27, 2021 · Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persopolis’ was published 21 years ago. What does reading it today in India mean? With a Hindi edition published, the graphic novel acquires a fresh urgency in India’s...
Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels, originally published in French in four parts in 2000–2003 and in English translation in two parts in 2003 and 2004, respectively, as Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe.
Intro. Persepolis Summary. Next. The Veil. Persepolis opens right after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which results in the downfall of the American-backed dictator known as the Shah of Iran and leads to the rise of the religious hardliners who establish the oppressive Islamic Republic.
4.39. 174,558 ratings11,577 reviews. Here, in one Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. 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 ...
Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity.
