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Family gossip is my Achilles' heel. I live for those moments when my mother and I get to discuss old memories of hers and mine. So this graphic novel fit right like a glove. Embroideries starts out with Marjane Satrapi and her family and friends sitting down with their drinks to devote themselves to t Leggi tutto

" To speak behind others' backs is to ventilate the soul. " – a dictum from Marjane Satrapi’s grandmother. Reading ‘ Embroideries ’ from Marjane Satrapi was like reading some missing pages from ‘ Persepolis ’, her renowned autobiographical series. In ‘Persepolis’ she gave much insights to the reader about Leggi tutto

“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.” A humorous yet eye-opening take on the culture of patriarchy, Embroideries is a comic book about an evening of tea-drinking and gossip among women in Iran in the Satrapi family. The illustrations have women gossiping about lost loves Leggi tutto

Este cómic es una mirilla a un hermético universo femenino en el que un puñado de mujeres de distintas edades -reunidas alrededor de una mesa de té mientras los hombres descansan después de un almuerzo- desgranan sus recuerdos más íntimos y los intercambian por las confidencias de otras mujeres pres Leggi tutto

Totalmente en la línea de Persépolis. Este se dividía en pequeños capítulos que eran momentos de la vida de Marji, y en este caso nos encontramos con un capítulo larguito transformado en otro cómic. Y, nuevamente, me ha gustado un montón. Necesito leer todo lo que haya publicado esta mujer. En este c Leggi tutto

I am hugely disappointed with this one. It's so weird, sexist and gross that I got literally numb the moment I closed this book. I get the point that women gossip about a lot of things, every tiny details they know about or we think we know of. I get that grandmothers and women talk a lot of weird wo Leggi tutto

Marjane Satrapi lives by converting her family history into graphic novels. Her magnum opus The Complete Persepolis was absolutely mind-blowing, and it was this book which got me hooked to the genre of graphic novels in general. In this book, the mood is not as heavy, but definitely a lot more naugh Leggi tutto

A nice little companion piece to Marjane Satrapi's wonderful memoir Persepolis. An anthology of sorts, it's a short collection of stories from middle-aged Iranian women discussing their marriages and sex lives. Even from conservative and religious backgrounds, the discussions are very frank. There a Leggi tutto

Reading this graphic novel was like being invited to tea with a group of Iranian women, except that the talk turned (interestingly enough) to arranged marriages, cheating husbands, and faking your virginity. The images strengthened the words in such a way that when I was done reading it I actually f Leggi tutto

A group of ladies has gathered for an afternoon tea. The conversation slowly turns to their married lives, and sex, and love, and the common factor across these three points: men. My opinion: Hilarious and hard-hitting at the same time, Embroideries will make you feel like you are sitting with your l Leggi tutto