Persépolis by Marjane Satrapi5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.’ ‘ 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 country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family of her homecoming–both sweet and terrible and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. ‘The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.’ Inspired by the cover art for Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ![]()
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