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This was the first time I have ever seen a memoir as a graphic novel and I have to say that it was an interesting experience. I loved that the author also drew the artwork so that you can see her personality in not only her writing but her art as well. The lack of color was something that I believe kept everything simple and allowed the reader to focus on what they were reading. It is a bit of a biggie in terms of size...
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I originally bought this book for my high school students as it was on the "most banned books of the year" list. My students were studying about why books were banned and were controversial and decided to buy this book and read it to see if we should add it to our library. I read it three times because I felt that I kept getting something new from the text. Satrapi makes her book accessible for anyone even if you are not familiar...
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Last weekend I had the joy of seeing the film adaptation of the comic book series PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi. I loved the film. I knew though that I was missing out some key points of Marjane's life so I decided to check out the complete version of PERSEPOLIS in paperback. Although the book is in the form of a graphic novel, the story is a memoir of Marjane Satrapi's life growing up in Iran as well as outside of Iran. I...
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THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS brings together in one softbound volume two graphic novels published earlier in English (translated from French): PERSEPOLIS 1 - THE STORY OF A CHILDHOOD, and PERSEPOLIS 2 - THE STORY OF A RETURN. As a single volume, Ms. Satrapi's work reads as a seamless story of an Iranian woman's maturation from a young girl in the Shah's (and Ayatollah Khomeini's) Iran to her high school years in Austria, back to...
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