Persepolis

By Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi

Subjects: Islamic fundamentalism, Art, Basic reader, Biography, Politics and government, Women, Practical Politics, Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, Women illustrators, Islamiska revolutionen 1979, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Islam, Iran-Iraq War, Authors, biography, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Cartoons and comics, Iran, biography, Families, New York Times bestseller, Teenage girls, Girls, biography, Women, biography, Manners and customs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Erwachsenwerden, Long Now Manual for Civilization, 15.75 history of Asia, Comic books, strips, Pictorial works, Iranians, Girls, Coming of age, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Psychological aspects, Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general, Personal Memoirs, Revolution, 1979, Cartoonists, Iranian Women authors, Graphic novels, Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects, Social life and customs, Revolution (Iran : 1979) fast (OCoLC)fst01354530, Nonfiction graphic novels, nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2009-09-13, Comic books, strips, etc., Social conditions, Iran, War, Historia, Tecknade serier, History, Personal narratives, Chauvinism and jingoism, Foreign countries

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.