Persepolis 2

Sequel to the critically acclaimed Persepolis – the story of Marjane’s challenging adolescence as a high-school student in Austria and later as a Western-influenced young art student in Iran. Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis , Marjane Satrapi’s memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life- an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran. Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor – with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state – Persepolis 2 is also as clear-eyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its cost to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood – here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear make-up, run in public, date, or question authority – it’s raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating. —- ISBN: 9780224074407 | ISBN10: 0224074407 | ISBN-13: 978-0224074407