Persepolis : the story of a childhood and the story of a return
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Vintage, 2008Description: 343 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780099523994
- 009952399X
- Persepolis 2 : the story of a return [Added title page title]
- NC1764.5.I72 S28213 2008
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Film tie-in.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Marjane Satrapi (born 22 November 1969) is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels, originally published in French in four parts in 2000-2003 and in English translation in two parts in 2003 and 2004, respectively, as Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her later publication, Embroideries (Broderies), was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award that was won by her novel Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes). She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times. Comics Alliance listed Satrapi as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Satrapi prefers the term "comic books" to "graphic novels." "People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'," she told the Guardian newspaper in 2011. "It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears. No: it's all comics."
Persepolis : The story of childhood. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2003 -- Persepolis 2 : The story of a return. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.
This text tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from six to 14, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution & the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Satrapi paints a portrait of daily life in Iran & of the bewildering contradictions between home life & public life.
In English; translated from the French.