Persepolis Autobiography Video
Persepolis Autobiography
UPC: Description Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of Persepolis Autobiography to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
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The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's Persepolis Autobiography emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis Autobiographu an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life.
Amidst the tragedy, Marjane's child's eye view adds immediacy and humour, and her story of a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary, beset by the unthinkable and yet buffered by an extraordinary and loving family, is Persepolis Autobiography moving. It is also very beautiful; Satrapi's drawings have the power of the very best woodcuts.
Persepolis ends on a cliffhanger injust as fourteen-year-old Marjane is leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. In Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight Persepolis Autobiography of her life: an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran.
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Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor - with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state - Persepolis 2 is also as clear-eyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its Persepolis Autobiography to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood - here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear make-up, run in public, date, or question authority - it's Autbiography, honest, Persepolis Autobiography incredibly illuminating.
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