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ladybrik's review against another edition
3.0
I found the Iranian politics & history & culture fascinating, but I found Marjane to be horribly insufferable most of the time.
jennifer_anne3's review against another edition
5.0
Incredibly quick and powerful read. I need to get Part 2 ASAP.
jennievh's review against another edition
4.0
Very glad I read it. I'm learning more and more how important it is to have a personalized, from-within view of what it's like in countries that are different from ours.
At the end of the book, though, it feels like a cliff-hanger! I wonder if she wrote them as a two-part story anyway. Now, to get Persepolis 2.
At the end of the book, though, it feels like a cliff-hanger! I wonder if she wrote them as a two-part story anyway. Now, to get Persepolis 2.
mcrocus4's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely beautiful memoir, pulls no punches but makes moving parts behind Iranian regime shifts clear and concise. All the more enjoyable to read through the eyes of a young girl concerned with fitting in with peers and understanding God.
I would share with older high school students, especially in a study of human rights violations, the history of modern war, bildungsroman, the hero's journey, or autobiography.
I would share with older high school students, especially in a study of human rights violations, the history of modern war, bildungsroman, the hero's journey, or autobiography.
lbee24's review against another edition
4.0
This was a quick read but a good story and my first graphic book.
mayog's review against another edition
5.0
A powerful true story about life under a repressive regime and about a young girl's journey to independence.
Satrapi's wonderful "bande dessine" is not so much a graphic novel as a graphic autobiography of war, peace, migration, culture, religion, and the growth of a girl into a young woman during a time of repression.
Her telling of the Iranian revolt balances the true and oppressive history of the Shah's regime with the equally true and oppressive history of the religious clerics that took over. But all of this is told from the viewpoint of a girl who was losing friends in war.
Originally written in French, the story loses nothing in translation. Absolutely riveting.
Satrapi's wonderful "bande dessine" is not so much a graphic novel as a graphic autobiography of war, peace, migration, culture, religion, and the growth of a girl into a young woman during a time of repression.
Her telling of the Iranian revolt balances the true and oppressive history of the Shah's regime with the equally true and oppressive history of the religious clerics that took over. But all of this is told from the viewpoint of a girl who was losing friends in war.
Originally written in French, the story loses nothing in translation. Absolutely riveting.
elisability's review against another edition
4.0
Persépolis is an autobiography in the form of a graphic novel of Marjane Satrapi, in Iran in the 1980s. I read the complete novel (all four parts in one book), and in the original French. Part one is her childhood during the revolution; part 2 is her late childhood / early teens at the start of the war; part 3 is the four years in her teens she spends in Austria, where her parents send her to avoid the war; and part 4 is her early adulthood, when she comes back to Iran.
It was very interesting to read about this aspect of (near) history that I knew next to nothing about. It is told in short anecdotes, a few pages long, recalling different aspects of her past. The drawings are pretty crude, not very detailed (and all in black and white), but this works wonders with the narration. She tells things as they were, never with too much angst and emotion. I mean, there is emotion, of course, but given the hard topic she could have written a tear-jerker, but she didn’t. We’re left to feel and think what we will.
I’ve been wanting to read this literally for years but it was always out or reserved for months in advance at the library, either the individual parts or the complete novel. But three weeks ago, miraculously, it was on the shelf, so I jumped on it and am not at all sorry I did! It was worth the wait.
It was very interesting to read about this aspect of (near) history that I knew next to nothing about. It is told in short anecdotes, a few pages long, recalling different aspects of her past. The drawings are pretty crude, not very detailed (and all in black and white), but this works wonders with the narration. She tells things as they were, never with too much angst and emotion. I mean, there is emotion, of course, but given the hard topic she could have written a tear-jerker, but she didn’t. We’re left to feel and think what we will.
I’ve been wanting to read this literally for years but it was always out or reserved for months in advance at the library, either the individual parts or the complete novel. But three weeks ago, miraculously, it was on the shelf, so I jumped on it and am not at all sorry I did! It was worth the wait.