New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller that cracks you open with stark honesty. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir captures growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution—funny, heartbreaking, and profoundly human. Through deceptively simple black-and-white panels, witness history unfolding at the kitchen table. A wholly original achievement that lingers.
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New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book
Some books crack you open gently. This one does it with stark black-and-white panels that feel like looking through a window into someone’s living room during a revolution.
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s extraordinary graphic memoir of growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution. Through the eyes of a precocious, rebellious girl navigating a world of protests, disappearances, and war with Iraq, we witness history unfolding at the kitchen table. Marjane is the outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors. Her story is intensely personal and profoundly political.
What makes this memoir unforgettable is its honesty about contradiction. The gap between what happens at home and what’s required in public. The way laughter and tears exist in the same breath. How a girl can be shaped by revolution while still being wonderfully, defiantly herself.
Satrapi’s illustrations are deceptively simple but devastatingly effective. Each panel carries weight. The New York Times called it “a wholly original achievement” and included it among the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years and the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
This is the kind of book that lingers on your shelf and in your mind. It’s wise, funny, heartbreaking, and necessary. Perfect for readers who believe that the best stories help us understand both history and humanity.
A wholly original achievement.
Intensely personal, profoundly political.
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking.
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is a deceptively simple account of growing up under the Islamic regime in Iran. Ms. Satrapi's drawings are bold and spare, and her story is direct and unadorned.
A new translation of the Koran, a biography of the prophet Muhammad and Marjane Satrapi's account of growing up in revolutionary Iran — these are the books you should read to understand the Islamic world.
Persepolis is a stylish, clever and moving weapon of mass destruction.
A stark, graphic memoir that is both intensely personal and deeply political.
| Weight | 0.98 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6.27 × 0.70 × 9.18 in |
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| Subject | Biography & Autobiography, Biography & Memoir, Comics & Graphic Novels, History, Iran, Middle East, Nonfiction, Women |
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