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The girl who originally recommended the Persepolis books to me told me that the second one wasn't as good as the first (which kept me from being motivated to read the second, but when I found out the new Persepolis movie covers both books, well . . . I have this thing about reading books before I see the movies.) I'm glad I did pick this up; although it gets off to a slower start than Persepolis, it's worth the wait. Since Marjane is an adult in this book, it's easier to see how oppressive the I
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This one wasn't actually on my hold list, but when I saw it in the staff recommendations section of the library, I had to pick it up, despite how large my stack was already. It's been many years since I read the first installment of this story, but still, opening this book to her familiar, heavy black and white illustration style was like catching up with an old friend.
Satrapi is from Iran, and this book is her memoir of her teen years in Europe, sent away by her family to keep her safe during y ...more
Satrapi is from Iran, and this book is her memoir of her teen years in Europe, sent away by her family to keep her safe during y ...more
While I enjoyed the first "Persepolis" more, her second novel hit a more personal chord for me because the first 100 pages took place in Vienna, Austria -- my home for half of 2007. While I am in no way saying our lives paralleled one another,I had many similar experiences being an, at times, less than welcome foreigner there. For those of you who read my blog, you'd see that she and I had many similar observations about the city -- the Viennese obsession with death, the trials and tribulations
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Satrapi's second installment is the continuation of a fascinating coming-of-age story of a modern Iranian woman from a progressive family. Satrapi deftly contrasts fundamentalism and liberalism, tradition and exploration, love, suffering, enlightenment and loss - so that the reader can begin to understand the dual life she had to live to survive Iran in the 80s and 90s.
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I liked it, but I didn't find it as interesting as the first volume, even though she went through a great deal during these years. I missed the elements of fantasy that the earlier volume had. However, I still found it very interesting to read about a teenage outsider.
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Another amazing yet quick read by Marjane Satrapi. She does a brillant job of helping one to understand the life in Iran. I'm looking forward to seeing the film.
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Oof. So good. I love Satrapi's brutal honesty. I love her honest assessment of the nihilist punks and of her own struggle and her family. I love her art.
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Satrapi's a must-read these days, especially with the doom-filled statements we hear from our government about Iran.
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Jan 22, 2010
Jennifer Kronk
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Isabel
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