Marjane Satrapi

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. This is a beautiful and intimate story full of tragedy and humour - raw, honest and incredibly illuminating.

Persepolis

The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Patrick Book

had to read it for school and its good but too serious books make me sad and i dont like to be sad

Aashvi

I’m emotionally attached to this story in ways that don’t allow me to make a fair analysis of this book. I love it too much. 

Ines Camacho Rodrigues Dias Ferreira

Colton Ray

Dark and depressing, but necessary reading for the kind of empathy we are going to have to cultivate to survive the reactionary barbarism on the rise in America. This is a tiny step in understanding a culture that is so foreign to my own, but a step that needs to be taken. Read for a class.

Sarah Sammis

I enjoyed Persepolis and learned a great deal about events that happened when I was but a child myself. Marjane manages to capture the humanity of her friends and family in the middle of chaotic times. While the subject matter and presentation are very similar to the Maus books by Spiegelman, I think that Persepolis is more effective in its story telling because the people are left people for the good and the bad.

Vicky  Nuñez 

Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of what her childhood was like living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is an insightful look into the history of a country that I personally didn't know much about. 
Satrapi openly talks about what she lived through and all the hardships her family, their closest relations and the whole country went through in those turbulent times.
It is a heart-breaking tale all told through the eyes of a kid whose childhood was constantly put on hold because of this terrible times. 
Really enjoyable, if anything lacks more context and makes you want to more about this country's history.

britt

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."
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Not unfamiliar with the harrowing consequences and frustrating desperation of the tumultuous politics of the Middle East, reading Persepolis has been an uncannily familiar, bittersweet, and thought-provoking experience for me. It is a book about freedom, fear, suffering, propaganda, and that flicker of a light at the end of the tunnel that gives the reader the space both to despair and to hope.
A valuable perspective of our modern history that definitely needs to be read.

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of 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 child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Amidst the tragedy, Marjane's child's eye view adds immediacy and humour, and her story of a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary, beset by the unthinkable and yet buffered by an extraordinary and loving family, is immensely moving. It is also very beautiful; Satrapi's drawings have the power of the very best woodcuts.

The Story of an Iranian Childhood

A tragic depiction of war from the eyes of a child. The graphic novel style allowed me to enter the perspective of a young girl forced to learn the travesty of war at the age of only six. So much sympathy for the children of war and for parents. 

cedar winslow

Amena Elkayal

fiona

The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life, in a memoir told in the form of a graphic novel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Story of a Return

Persepolis 2

rumbledethumps

The second half of Satrapi's memoir, about her life after she left Iran (and subsequently returned), is just as honest, powerful, hilarious, and heart-breaking as the first half.

A comics memoir of a childhood in Iran during the Revolution and the Iran/Iraq war. It is in the same vein as Maus, without the visual metaphors, but still really great. It was so good, upon finishing, I immediately went and reserved its sequel at my local library.

karalea

such a good book... one of those that you wish you could read it for the first time again bc i honestly couldn't put this one down

Savindi Jinasena

It was everything you can expect from living alone to returning home and to truly be who you want to be.

poprika

"We're crashed not only by our gouvernement but by the weight of our own traditions"

I was so excited when I found this book at my local thrift store because I loved the movie as a kid. My mistake initially was to think this was the book to speed through to try to catch my reading goal in the last hour. I don't think I took in much of what I was reading at the time. But then I decided to slow down and really give this book the respect it deserves. I'm glad I did. I even teared up more then a few times, especially in the last 25-50 pages. 

Ari Rose

aisha

reread for english class - 25 jan-28 mar 2020
“Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.” 

First read - 28 Oct 2014
Such an amazing read. I NEED PERSEPOLIS 3-4 NOW.

Ben Jenkins

Liked it a lot but didn’t like the art style very much

An interesting (privileged) perspective on the Iranian instability 

Julia Rivera

A very good read to get background and understanding of what is happening in Iran. It is in general a very good book. I found the author/character very relatable even though I share very few things with her. The story was great at coving historical events without becoming an essay. Usually summing up events in a few sentences. What really stood out was the emotional turmoil of growing up in a religious regime. 

Amber

Nelson Zagalo

A brilliant memoir that serves as a window into very little known culture, that of Iran.

The illustration and narration is great, as is the movie adaptation done in 2007.


I've made a short movie review, in 2010, in portuguese for my blog VI: 
https://virtual-illusion.blogspot.com...

Persepolis

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