Persepolis. Ediz. whole wheat

Data: 352 pages, illustrated, bound
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Year: 2007
Editor: Lizard

Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969, from Rasht, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, Iran. A little Azerbaijani, a little Turkmen, a little Muslim, a little Zoroastrian, she grew up in Tehran, Vienna, Strasbourg, and Paris where she met David B. who encouraged her to tell the story in comics. his life and that of his family. This volume collects in full edition the four episodes of the "Persepolis" series, an autobiographical section that describes the childhood and adolescence of the most acclaimed Iranian author of the moment. She tells the story of her family and of her when she was a child in Tehran, at the time of the Shah and then of the inflexible fundamentalist regime of Khomeini and the ayatollahs. Then the violence of the pasdaran, the opponents eliminated, the women attacked for wearing jeans, the occupation of the US embassy, ​​the war with Saddam Hussein's Iran. In 1984 Marjane Satrapi was forced to leave her country, "because I talked too much, my parents said worried". An example of a trend in international comics: history, civil commitment, social issues and journalistic reports through the drawn strips. And often they are works of "gentleman with a pencil".