Name: Persepolis: V. 1 & V. 2 (in English)
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Author: Marjane Satrapi
ISBN: 9780224080392

portada Persepolis: V. 1 & V. 2 (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Marjane Satrapi

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Synopsis "Persepolis: V. 1 & V. 2 (in English)"

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 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. Persepolis ends on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane is leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. In Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return 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.

Marjane Satrapi

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Nació en 1969 en Rasht (Irán) y vive en Francia desde 1994. La publicación de Persépolis (2000-2003), una innovadora serie de cómics autobiográficos, le valió un éxito fulgurante en Europa y Estados Unidos. Siguieron dos novelas gráficas más para adultos, Bordados (2003) y Pollo con ciruelas (2004), así como varios libros infantiles. Ha colaborado en revistas y periódicos de todo el mundo, y actualmente se dedica a la dirección cinematográfica, con cinco películas en su haber, entre ellas las adaptaciones de Persépolis (2007) y Pollo con ciruelas (2011). Mujer, Vida, Libertad (2023) es su último proyecto gráfico.

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