Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return | Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return | Marjane Satrapi | Good Insight to a World I Do Not Know

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	Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 58 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as ?one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,? Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.

Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.

As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up?here compounded by Marjane?s status as an outsider both abroad and at home?it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

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BEST EVER

This is the only book that I have manged to read the entire of it in one day!
It is a comic book, supper easy read and very educational in terms of knowing different culture.
I like Persepolis 2 better than 1.
U may wanna watch the movie, as well. It won and nominated for many awards in 2007.

Good Insight to a World I Do Not Know

I call myself a history buff but in reality I really only know American history with a little knowledge of King Henry VIII. I was 18 when Iranian crisis started. This book gave me a better insight to the overall issues behind this area than any other reading I had done, which I admit is not vast. The difference here was this book laid things out in such an engaging way I was totally engrossed. The author was both straight foward and insightful, along with quite humorous.

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Inside Iran Persepolis 1 & 2

Graphic novel comes of age. This is the first novel I have seen by a writer trained as a graphic artist. It is wonderful!

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