Persepolis. Ediz. integrale

This should be required reading, I want to pass out copies of this book on street corners. Easily one of the best graphic novels--and books in general--I have ever read and I have just finished it for a second time after making my book club read it this month. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is an impo Leggi tutto

This and Maus are the best graphic novels ever and both among the first I read in the genre, and they ruined all the rest of them for me forever. In short: I recommend! Bottom line: Not really reviewing this because how much more is there to say! --------------- pre-review how am i slumped so hard i can' Leggi tutto

A masterpiece of graphic novels This edition as the name indicates, collects the complete run of “Persepolis”. Creative Team: Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Marjane Satrapi REVOLUTIONARY WORK I remember the days when we traveled around Europe, it was enough to carry an Iranian passport. They r

Real life Middle East Handmaids´tale Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood An epic tale of sociocultural evolutions, silent revolutions, and never losing hope and trust in progressive, new solutions although backlashes and setbacks are omnipresent and daunting. Each country has its big, subtle, an Leggi tutto

Visiting Spain for a conference earlier this month, I impulsively decided to do something about my almost non-existent Spanish. I began by reading the Spanish edition of Le petit prince , which got me started nicely. Now I wanted to try something harder. I had in fact read Persepolis in French not lo Leggi tutto

The famous auto-biographical tale of an Iranian woman growing up during the fall of the Shah and the actualisation of the Islamic and cultural revolution. A terrific book, managing to capture the voices of childhood and youth whilst telling the story of living under the Shah and then the fundamental Leggi tutto