Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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Average rating4.3
This was a truly fantastic – spare, haunting, starkly illustrated, in turns innocent and worldly – memoir, depicting the coming of age of a young, Iranian girl. Like the best of such memoirs, the author spends equal time on the political and historical events in Iran, the day-to-day life in such a regime and normal childhood experiences.
really fast read. cute and interesting. lots of historical background on Iran delivered in an easy to digest and effective way. great graphic novel.
I overcame my inability to read and look at pictures at the same time! And, enjoyed this book a great deal. #2 is on my bedside table..
El tema principal del libro es la vida de una niña de diez años en un régimen fundamentalista islámico. Es bastante simple, no tiene muchos remolinos o subtramas. Cada página te va mostrando la situación de Irán y como una familia común sobre lleva eso. Y también, como una niña entiende y crece en ese ambiente.
Al principio de la novela gráfica te dan unas páginas de contexto, lo cual me pareció muy adecuado y hasta necesario para educarse en el tema. Luego empieza desde lo inferior o menos significante, hasta lo más fuerte o emocional. En lo personal, a mi me abrió mucho la cabeza, yo ya sabia como había sido pero verlo tan personal en el autor y detenerme al leerlo para pensarlo, me causó una fuerte impresión.
A mi parecer, es la primera vez que veo una temática como esta y más aún en una novela gráfica, agregando humor y dibujos graciosos. Se aborda totalmente desde una perspectiva tanto social como histórica.
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Very interesting. I'm glad I read it. Gave me more of the history that I hadn't know before.
This is the second graphic novel memoir that I've read. The other was George Takei's They Called Us Enemy. Some thoughts about Persepolis • A story of something in the historically recent past that I knew very little about • Told from a unique perspective • The graphic novel format is interesting and tells the story at a fast pace • A sad, difficult story with violence discussed • A cautionary tale about fundamentalism • Builds empathy for the people inside countries with oppressive governments who are engagedin war I started reading Persepolis when there was a discussion about it among our district's school board. The book had been approved by our literature review committee and gone to a test class. The last step was for the board to give final approval, but some school board members expressed concern about derogatory language toward women. In the end, they approved the book. I'm glad that this book will be part of core curriculum for 11th grade students. The derogatory language? This happened maybe three times and always from the “bad guys”.
A fascinating look at another culture and its radical changes, told by a protagonist with profound ties to the personal and political aspects of these changes. This was compulsively readable, and really gave me a new point of view.
I read this book with my son, who had to read it for a English class. I confess I didn't know anything about the Islamic Revolution and I would probably not have picked this book on my own. But I'm happy that I had a chance to read it and I will definitely read the second book in the series.
I'd read this before, a few years ago, and I was pleased to return to it for class. So good. So funny, so subtle, so sad. ILU Marjane Satrapi.
4.5 estrellas, aunque no es mi favorito, si es una increíble novela grafica, la historia y es trasfondo que tiene es hermoso, ver la guerra desde los ojos de una niña y como esa niña crece, y que no solo es la historia de una niña es algo que si sucedio y de cómo esto es increíblemente preocupante.
I love the graphic images and the beautiful story that Marjane told through this thought-provoking memoir. Learned a lot about the Iranian Revolution and how oppressive the fundamentalist Muslim regime was in the 1980s and how Marjane managed to survive the regime and escape to Vienna where she further her studies before going back to Iran to study graphic design. I hope that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries have more rights for women and allow women to choose whether to wear the veil or not without forcing them to do so.
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The English version of Persepolis is well-translated, but nothing beats the original French version of Persepolis.
this book was so funny! haha i bought this book for a QUARTER at the library and it was so worth it. Marjane Satrapi writes in a comic book format about the hardships of the Islamic Revolution in Iran during the late 70's and 80's. This is such a good book because she uses humor and its kind of a biography that has many exagerrated parts as well. But it draws the attention of the reader. You learn alot you wouldn't have known about Iran. And its just a wonderful journey to go on with Marjane. I recommend this book to everyone because even though you may not connect to her problems and community issues, there will be other ways that you will be able to relate to.
That was educational. I find it weird that the parents kept talking about the issues that were happening in the country with so many details despite the child being present. At the same time, it was a difficult time, no time for overthinking the effects of such conversations in front of a child.
I'm kind of horrified how little I knew about Iran before reading this book. Overall, one of the better graphic novels I read recently, definitely going to pick up the sequel.
Best memoir I've read bar none. It's about the pursuit for intelligence and survival and it's amazing. High 9/10
I enjoyed this!
I thought it was a very interesting way of telling this story and I definitely got emotionally invested. I will say, I was a bit confused at points, and that is probably a combination of me having little previous exposure to this topic and the style of prose (a graphic novel). Regardless, I found the story to be very fascinating and eye-opening. I definitely would like to do more research on this subject in the future because I feel very uneducated on it at the moment.
Would definitely reccomend!