20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • Persepolis is a classroom staple a feminist manifesto and one of
the most beloved graphic novels of all time. For the first time in hardcover this stunning
edition examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics today. •
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR "A stunning graphic memoir...a wholly original
achievement in the form." — The New York Times “Persepolis stands in defiant resistance
alongside other classics of its kind from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to ‘Letter from
a Birmingham Jail’ and Memoirs of a Revolutionist . Twenty years on it remains urgent
necessary reading.” —Kirkus Reviews For the first time in hardcover a stunning
twentieth-anniversary complete edition of the beloved graphic memoir with a new introduction
by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics
Here in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling internationally acclaimed memoir
in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age
within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions
between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school
years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family 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 often heartbreaking but threaded throughout
with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom Persepolis is “a dazzling singular achievement” (Salon)
from one of the most highly regarded uniquely talented graphic artists at work today.
