Clean lines and a compelling coming-of-age story make this book an excellent introduction to both graphic novels and the recent political history of Iran.

posted Apr 28, 2009 at 1:43PM

My book group read this book. At first most of the members balked at reading a

posted Oct 13, 2008 at 12:00PM

After spending several years studying and living a wild lifestyle in Austria, Marjane Satrapi returns to her native Iran, where the effects of the Islamic Revolution are still going strong. Home again, she struggles to find herself, returning to school, falling in love, exploring ideas with new friends, and discovering more about her family’s history, all the while trying to avoid The Guardians of the Revolution.

Persepolis 2 is just as enjoyable as the first, and I look forward to reading more of Satrapi’s work.

posted Jul 7, 2008 at 8:42PM

Persepolis was my first graphic novel (or, in this case, graphic autobiography) experience. It is the childhood story of Marjane Satrapi, who was a young girl of liberal parents during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the 1980s.

Satrapi’s drawings are simple yet poignant, and reading about her experiences and culture so foreign to me was at the same time both fascinating and dismaying. I hope to read more of her works.

posted Jul 7, 2008 at 8:41PM

See as well Satrapi's other autobiographical graphic novels: Embroideries, Chicken With Plums, and Persepolis II.

posted May 29, 2007 at 10:50AM

This graphic novel is a fascinatingly candid memoir of a girl growing up during late 1970s/early 1980s Iran. The Islamic Revolution and the Iran/Iraq war are observed by an adolescent undergoing her own personal rebellion.

posted Dec 29, 2006 at 10:56AM

This book is amazing. Its shows how life was in the revolution of 1979 and it is kind of like an autobiography of herself. The context is wellwriten and I would recommend it to many people.

posted Oct 28, 2006 at 3:17PM

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