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 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 stunning work from one of the
most highly regarded singularly talented graphic artists at work today.
