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Summary: The pictures say it all
Review: What an enlightening graphical book. A picture is surely worth a 1000 words. Marjane's story gave great insight into life during the Iranian revolution. I loved the real story, but what I loved most was the humor. I laughed out loud when she described the 10-year-old Mehri taking care of her. When I got to the last page, I couldn't believe that it was done, I just wanted to keep reading.Marjane, you are a very gifted writer and artist. Thank you for sharing your piece of history with us.
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Summary: Unbelievely truthfull but this truth does not hurt
Review: As an Iranian Who is living outside Iran now I can recommend this book to my entire foreign friends who have no Idea about Iran. Since I myself was a child when the revolution happened I could relate to Marjane and her story. Her funny tone throughout the book and how she explains the events makes her story line stronger. The book is full of fact of the events, which took place in Iran during revolution and the Iraq-Iran war. The book also very instructive, for example the way she explains the difference between Persians and Arabs, which I think every Iranian, has a hard time to explain this difference to the foreigners. I highly recommend this book to every Iranian and every foreigner and I guaranty once you open the book you cannot put it down, because it is simply irresistible.
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Summary: Excellent read in the vein of Maus and Palestine
Review: If you enjoyed Art Spiegelmen's Maus or Joe Sacco's Palestine, you are sure to enjoy Marjane Sartrapi's Persepolis. The story telling is bold first persson, and the drawings are stark and striking in their pure black and white sympathy. I cannot wait until the sequel is translated into English.
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Summary: Entertaining and touching
Review: I just got the book yesterday afternoon and I finished it yesterday evening. While the art wasn't the greatest (but the author never professed to be a professional artist to my knowledge) the story was gripping and takes the reader through the whole course of human emotions. Th author's story also highlights how American and western "intervention" (to be nice...) in the affairs of others can come back to haunt us (Iraqis attacking Tehran with f-14s? Both sides attacking each other with chemical weapons made in Germany?). It does make you appreciate your freedom and realize the value of fighting to save it from those who think that the people don't know what's best for them, at home and abroad.
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Summary: Wonderful, alternative memoir
Review: Challenged by reading traditional memoirs that only give you a vague sense of what it's like to live in a foreign land? Look no more! Marjane Satrapi's book about growing up during the Iranian revolution is engaging, witty, well drawn and something you'll finish in one sitting. Ms. Satrapi finds the common thread of everyone's childhood (her recollection of wanting to grow up to be a prophet is hilarious) but also expresses her unique voice and identity as the daughter of liberal Iranians whose views ended up being thwarted by the new regime that was ushered in following the 1979 revolution. Even if you don't have an interest in Iranian history/politics, I guarantee you'll love this book!
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Summary: Maus for our generation
Review: Being an American woman roughly Marjane's age, I grew up knowing nearly nothing of the conflict in the Middle East, certainly not understanding it. This work fantastically illustrates all that happened in Iran (a lot!) in the late twentieth century, and how a teenage girl came to understand it and form her own opinions. It is extremely well-told and illustrated. I read the book in one setting and anxiously await the next two volumes to be translated into English. For any fan of graphic novels, I highly recommend this one.
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Summary: Like MAUS, a graphic intro to political tragedy
Review: Simple, beautiful illustration and humane tone characterize this introduction to a human tragedy, the Iranian revolution of 1979. Satrapi is a young woman of Vienna and Paris now, but grew up spending age zero to twelve in Iran. PERSEPOLIS is her testament to the crimes committed first by the Shah and then the thousandfold worse crimes created by a revolution which was supposed to address the problems.
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Summary: BRAVO MS. SATRAPI
Review: Although my French is not that good, I purchased all three volumes of Persepolis while I was in Paris (I wasn't sure if it had been translated to English) and read them all in one day! This interesting and adorable book pulls you in from the very start and keeps you interested until the end. So much so that you wish that the story of Marji would just keep going. I highly recommend this to all Iranians and non/Iranians alike. Particulary those women who experienced life in Iran and then left for another country at an early age. It's a MUST READ.
Shahrzad Sepanlou
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Summary: You will love it!
Review: Wonderful memoir of not only Marjan Satrapi but the generation who share almost all of her experience written so beautifully and so sincerely. It's also a very accurate image of those years. It makes you laugh, and it brings tears to your eyes at the same time. No matter what your interests and tastes, you will enjoy if not love Persepolis. Avisheh M.
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Summary: "Too much!"
Review: I have never given 5 stars before. But I just love this one too much. Here's why:
(1) This is very funny comics, as good as the best strips in U.S. papers.
(2) It's sad in a non-formula, non-manipulative way. Purely human. Said from the heart, touching the heart. (Yeah, I know, it's a Persian saying.) The scene in the end, the last frame, what an ending!
(3) It's straight to the point in its analysis, in a way few "current affairs" books on the Iranian Revolution have managed. This comic book rightly shows that the 1978-79 revolution was leftist and democratic in nature. The Islamic Republicans did not take power and the Cultural Revolution did not take hold until some major struggles and purges in the 1980-82 period. Satrapi shows how the war with Iraq became the pretext for the religious right's power grab. (If this sounds familiar to the Americans, it's unitentional!) I can go on listing reasons. This is such a unique piece of work.
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