Persepolis 2 The Story of a Return |
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Author:
| Satrapi, Marjane |
ISBN: | 978-0-224-07440-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $37.99 |
Book Description:
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Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life- an eye-opening...
More DescriptionHere is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West.
Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life- an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran. Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor - with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state - Persepolis 2 is also as clear-eyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its cost to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood - here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear make-up, run in public, date, or question authority - it's raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.