- Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. New
York: Pantheon Books, [2002, 2003] 2004. ISBN 0-375-42288-9.
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Having escaped from
Iran
in the middle of Iran/Iraq war to secular,
decadent Austria, Marjane Satrapi picks up her comic book
autobiography with the culture shock of encountering the amoral
West. It ends badly. She returns to Tehran in search of
her culture, and finds she doesn't fit there either, eventually
abandoning a failed marriage to escape to the West, where she has
since prospered as an author and illustrator. This intensely
personal narrative brings home both why the West is hated in much of
the world, and why, at the same time, so many people dream of
escaping the tyranny of dull conformity for the light of liberty and
reason in the West. Like Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
(November 2004), this is a
re-lettered English translation of the original French
edition published in two volumes:
(3,
4).
February 2005 