The Complete Persepolis
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- ISBN13: 9780375714832
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.
Persepolis is the tale of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family tree in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political disruption; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family tree; of her homecoming–both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.
Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, regularly heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom–Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.
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In the chapter “The Shabbat”, set before she leaves for Austria in 1984, Marjane describes how Iraqi Scud missiles start raining down on Tehran, killing her Jewish childhood friend and national, Neda. But, according to Jane’s Intelligence Review and additional sources, no missiles reached Tehran before Iraq’s Al-Husayn missile programme in February 1988. Why would she lie about this?
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The Perfect Persepolis is a hisotrical fiction book about the reveloution in Iran. It is written in a comic book form, which I establish hard to follow.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Last night I had the opportunity to watch Persepolis, a movie based on graphic novels by French based Iranian leader Marjane Satrapi that I had read before as well…
Overall, the movie was not terrible although it had several past errors and many shortcomings which I am going to talk about in this entry. If you’re informed enough about Iran, this can be a refreshing look at things but if not, you got to read a bit more before seeing this movie.
The first 20 minutes of the film is to bash the ex- Shah of Iran and his late father Reza Shah the fantastic as most ex-Communists and leftists do these days and mislead the viewers to judge that Reza Shah the fantastic was a product of British control over Iran at the time which is an utter nonsense and it just goes to repeat the same ancient cliche of conspiracy theorists in the Iranian society. Yes, the vast majority of Iranians still judge that British had something to do with installing Reza Shah to power and they’re unable to see the facts of the past and accept that Reza Shah was not installed by the Brits, yet he disliked the colonial powers and was an extreme nationalist who cared for nothing but his own shattered country. The additional shortcoming of this animated film was to repeat the same terrible anti-Shah nonsense that you can hear in most Marxist-Islamist circles today. The first 20-30 minutes were terribly wasted to tell the clueless western viewer that the Shah was incorrect to prosecute the Stalin supported Azeri separatists of Iran in 1946-47 who had orders from Kremlin to disintegrate Iran from within. Yes, according to Ms. Satrapi’s accounts, it was okay for a Stalinist group to seize parts of Iran but it was incorrect for the government to stop them. One has to remember that Ms. Satrapi basically comes from a Communist family tree where his uncles and father are/were proudly anti-Shah Marxist activists.
What disturbed me most through out the entire movie was the fact that leader really failed to mention the source of oppression in post-revolution Iran which is/was Islamofascism and the mullahs who enforce that ideology. No mention of Khomeini in the movie is a mystery to me. Ms. Satrapi described the late Shah as a commie-hating brutal dictator, yet she certainly failed to show who the real evil was represented by in post-revolution Iran. Yeah, I saw the moral police behavior towards western clothing or late night parties but who enforced that? Satrapi failed to tell the viewer. If I wasn’t from that country or didn’t know much, I’d not be able to guess who enforced a ban on alcohol or western composition.
The graphic novels which this animated movie is based on are truly reflective of the lives of many Iranians who like Ms. Satrapi suffered a a lot but again one has to remember that the tale told by the leader represents a tiny minority of the Iranian people. And the novels are the life tale of one point person and don’t really tell us the whole tale and I, for one, didn’t expect her to talk about my tale or tales of others. Persepolis is the tale of Marjane Satrapi and for that, it is nothing special. She got to go to Europe because her family tree could afford it while me and tons of people like me had to suffer under the war of the cities and place up with the Islamic regime oppressive system. She got to place Iran in mid 1990s again when she got depressed after a fleeting time living under the mullah’s rule but millions and millions of us had no choice but to stay there and soldier on. Persepolis animated movie is just about Ms. Satrapi’s intricate life and has nothing to do with the vast majority of the people held hostage by the Islamic regime of Iran. Kudos to her for building money by selling her tale but it really doesn’t change much for persons who still live inside of the country and have to suffer a fantastic deal due to the mistakes Ms. Satrapi’s communist father and uncles made in pre-revolution eras. You need to be informed about the history of Iran before watching any Iranian related movie, otherwise you might run a risk of being misled or misinformed.
At the end, I’d give Persepolis 2.5 stars out of 5. It doesn’t get any better!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
When I included this and Maus 1 & Maus 2 I was informed that they are not grpahic novels and that I could not have one free. AMAZING! Of course after I questioned for the distric manager’s name/numner there was a sudden change of heart BUT NOT a excellent instore experience from BORDERS at ALL. The GRAPHIC NOVEL is fantastic. Limits are not.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This review is for the kindle edition of PERSEPOLIS. I read parts of the book and watched the movie and it is one of my all-time favorites. The disappointing part is in the sample section that amazon sends when you order a preview. They only sent the introduction which is really beside the point because I wanted to preview an actual chapter of the book since it is a comic book and I wanted to see how it shows in kindle format. Too terrible…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5