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Days of our lives
A memoir in comic strips
By Marjane Satrabi
November 1, 2002
The Iranian
Excerpt from Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon Books, June 2003). The "graphic memoir"- a
memoir in comic strips - tells the story of the author's life growing up in Iran
in the 1970s and 80s. Satrapi was the daughter of Marxist intellectuals, and the
great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor, and the story she tells is the really
powerful story of what it was like, from a child's perspective, to grow up in Iran
during the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. She lives in Paris, France.
Persepolis
was first published to wide acclaim in France, where it won several prestigeous comic-book
awards. It has been translated into five other languages. See introduction.
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