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Persepolis I & II
  • Published: 29 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879099
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.99
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Persepolis I & II

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29 Oct 2024
Paperback
1 May 2008
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Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.

The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.

Marjane Satrapi lived through the Iranian Revolution as a little girl. This is her classic memoir-in-comic-strips, the story of a child entangled in the history and politics of her country. It paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up in revolutionary and war-torn Iran, in a family that was both outrageous and ordinary, beset by tragedy and yet buffered by love. Funny, wise, ultimately heartbreaking and told with unforgettable pictures.

‘A revelation...you will remember it for a very long time’ Mark Haddon

‘The magic of Marjane Satrapi’s work is that it can condense a whole country’s tragedy into one poignant, funny scene after another’ Independent on Sunday

THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS VOLUMES I & II: Includes The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return

TRANSLATED BY ANJALI SINGH

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
  • Published: 29 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879099
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.99
Categories:

About the author

Marjane Satrapi

Beloved Iranian and French graphic novelist, film director, and children's book author MARJANE SATRAPI (1969–2026) was born in Rasht, Iran, raised in Tehran, and spent her adulthood in France. Her highly acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis (2004) sold millions of copies and was translated into over 100 languages. Detailing her youth marked by the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and her immigration to Europe, Persepolis was ranked second by the New York Times in a list of best books from the last three decades, and its film adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Satrapi’s other comic strips include Embroideries (2005) and Chicken with Plums (2006), which won the prize for Best Album at the 2004 Angoulême Comics Festival. In the 2024 anthology Woman, Life, Freedom, Satrapi wrote of the Iranian protest movement: “When history guides us, nightmares cease to haunt us. We can see all roads converging to lead us toward a promising dawn.”
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Also by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis
Woman, Life, Freedom
Embroideries
Chicken With Plums
Persepolis 2
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Praise for Persepolis I & II

As Iran enters another important period of change...I think this is particularly good time to pick up Persepolis. Satrapi's deceptively simple, almost whimsical drawings belie the seriousness and rich complexity of her story - but its also very funny too

Emma Watson, Our Shared Shelf

A revelation...you will remember it for a very long time

Mark Haddon

Persepolis is a stylish, clever and moving weapon of mass destruction

David Jenkins, Sunday Telegraph

The magic of Marjane Satrapi's work is that it can condense a whole country's tragedy into one poignant, funny scene after another

Natasha Walter, Independent on Sunday

I cannot praise enough Marjane Satrapi's moving account of growing up as a spirited young girl in revolutionary and war-time Iran. Persepolis is disarming and often humorous but ultimately it is shattering

Joe Sacco

A tour de force to rival Maus

The Times

An adult and difficult story but [accompanied by] very simple black and white illustrations, comic book style, and it is exceptionally powerful...show the amazing power and depth that can come from a literary story shown through words and images

Ink Pellet