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Persepolis 2

The Story of a Return

by Marjane Satrapi

ISBN: 0375422889
ISBN-13: 9780375422881
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Marjane Satrapi, whose first graphic-novel memoir of growing up in Iran made such a critical and popular impact, continues the story of her life, picking up right where she left off (and left Iran). Arriving in Austria for four years of schooling, Marjane is assailed by crippling homesickness and culture shock. While her life slowly drifts off course, her homeland is torn apart in a brutal war with Iraq. When she returns home to Iran, she realizes that although she never felt entirely at home in Europe, her time in the West has changed her more than she realized. As in the previous book, the deceptively simple black-and-white drawings have the look of woodcuts. The art focuses on the characters, particularly their modes of hair, makeup, and dress, demonstrating to readers how one's outward appearance is (and is not) linked to religious and political convictions in Iran.

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"...[C]ompelling and extremely complex....[W]ildly charming....[L]ike a letter from a friend, in this case a wonderful friend: honest, strong-willed, funny, tender, impulsive, self-aware. It's hard saying goodbye at the end."    -- Luc Sante

   -- New York Times Book Review

"...[PERSEPOLIS and PERSEPOLIS 2 are] simple, elegaic, artfully unaffected. At the same time, they are proudly comics and good at the things comics do best: The drawings have punch and clarity."    -- David Hajdu

   -- Bookforum

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 487

Publisher's Notes

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story.
In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.

Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.

As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up—here compounded by Marjane’s status as an outsider both abroad and at home—it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

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