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Look through a child's eyes at the most tumultuous and cataclysmic years in Iran's modern history in this terrifying and ultimately hopeful memoir.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
In powerful black-and-white comic st...
“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking impact.” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
In powerful black-and-white comic st...
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