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A review by mayog
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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.