Persepolis

By Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi

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

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.