Contributions

  • Mattias Ripa - Translator
  • Blake Ferris - Translator
  • Eve Deluze - Lettering
  • Céline Merrien - Lettering

Publication

2007-10-30 - Pantheon Books, New York, USA

Language

English

Translation of: Persepolis

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 5 more

Classifications

  • DDC955. 05' 42092 [ddc22]
  • LCCPN 6747. S245 P4713 2007
  • LCCPN6747.S245P4713
and 2 more
  • LCCPN6747.S245 P4713 2007
  • LCCPN6747.S245 P4713 2003

Description

From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

Description

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's 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. Collects a two-part graphic memoir, in which the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.

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