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![]() ![]() Factual details are transformed into details of the heart: how a deposed emperor's son is reduced to a broken man how a broken marriage weighs more heavily than torture in prison and how the children of Iran reflect the values of the adults around them. ![]() As a child, young Marji learns the history of Iran from family members who participated in important national turning points, enabling her to understand them in an intimate way. Satrapi's unique position as a descendent of Persian royalty influences the narration, making it less a history and more a memoir in a historical setting. ![]() Persepolis also dispels the one-dimensional stereotypes of Iran and Iranians, providing a complex picture of life under the regimes of both the Shah of Iran and the Ayatollah Khomeini. ![]() It illustrates how civil strife within the country was as damaging, if not more so, than threats from abroad. Named after the capital city of the Persian Empire, the book is an autobiographical tale set during the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Iran-Iraq War in the 1970s and 1980s, told through a series of comics. The first two French volumes were translated and reprinted together in the American volume Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood in 2003. A major achievement in comics narrative, Marjane Satrapi's first major work Persepolis debuted in France in 2000 to great fanfare. ![]()
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