- Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. New
York: Pantheon Books, [2000, 2001] 2003. ISBN 0-375-71457-X.
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This story is told in comic strip form, but there's nothing
funny about it. Satrapi was a 10 year old girl in Tehran when
the revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran. Her well-off family
detested the Shah, had several relatives active in leftist
opposition movements, and supported the revolution, but
were horrified when the mullahs began to turn the clock
back to the middle ages. The terror and mass slaughter of
the Iran/Iraq war are seen through the eyes of a young
girl, along with the paranoia and repression of the Islamic
regime. At age 14, her parents sent her to Vienna to escape
Iran; she now lives and works in Paris. Persepolis
was originally published in French in two volumes
(1,
2). This edition
combines the two volumes, with Satrapi's original artwork
re-lettered with the English translation.
November 2004 