Reviews tagging 'Death'

Persepolis: Storia di un'infanzia by Marjane Satrapi, Cristina Sparagana, Gianluigi Gasparini, Enrico Racca

197 reviews

allisoncdn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and War

v_andbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

Da biblioteca. I haven't read a whole book so long in a day in a long time. This story tells the story of Marjane, an Iranian girl growing up during the revolution and subsequent regimes.

Talking about freedom and the horrors of war and dictatorship, and the way the western world looks at West Asian countries, this graphic novel should be taught and commented in every single school. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Xenophobia, and Medical trauma

Suicide attempt:

After Marjane comes back from Austria, at the beginning of book 4, she is very depressed and attempts suicide by drinking alcohol and taking too many pills. When this doesn't kill her, she decides to change her life completely.

Religious bigotry:

Both Islamic and Christian extremisms are brought up in this book. You can find the characters usually disagreeing with religious bigotry in Iranian politics when the story is set in Iran, but in book 3 the story is set in Europe and the Christian bigotry is seen in form of xenophobic nuns.

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and War

karitoy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Rape

iarlais's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Persepolis really is a magnificent journey. I read this during my breaks at work and it was the first time in a while I was counting down the hours during my shift that I could get back to a book. This story touches on so much, growing up in tumultuous times, witnessing death and destruction as part of your childhood, seeing family members disappear, struggling to breathe as a girl in a deeply misogynistic society. Then Europe comes and the old challenges fade away, only to be replaced with new, more philosophical ones - trying to find your place in life, never feeling settled, and trying to adjust amidst a severe culture shock. It's an astoundingly funny and tragic work and easily one of the most fantastic autobiographies I've ever read. As a last note, the art work is great and easy to follow. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Torture

goatieboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.25

I finally got around to reading this and I am so angry it took me so long. This was such an informative and emotional read. 

The author also has such an eye for pacing and much needed levity when things got dark in the narrative. To be so honest about your mistakes and growth is really admirable.  

Eventually I should watch the movie…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, and War

jeremie's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

adored every second of this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

irinalast's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and War

la_karina1818's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Death, and War

beclc's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and War