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2) Persepolis
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her...
4) Persépolis
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Persépolis nos cuenta la revolución islámica iraní vista desde los ojos de una niña que asiste atónita al cambio profundo que experimentan su país y su familia, mientras ella debe aprender a llevar el velo. Intensamente personal y profundamente político, el relato autobiográfico de Marjane Satrapi examina qué significa crecer en un ambiente de guerra y represión política."--Back cover.
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