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Autor: Satrapi, Marjane
Editorial: Jonathan Cape
Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional
ISBN13: 9780224080392
Reseña: Wise often funny sometimes heartbreaking Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of Marjane Satrapis life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen years that saw the overthrow of the Shahs regime the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists and the great-grandaughter of Irans last emperor Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Amidst the tragedy Marjanes childs 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 immensely moving. It is also very beautiful Satrapis drawings have the power of the very best woodcuts. Persepolis ends on a cliffhanger in 1984 just 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 years 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. 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 cost 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 - its raw honest and incredibly illuminating.
