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In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director .
Persepolis tells the story of childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.
The film's storytelling mimics the powerful images of the book, using black and white animation. The Iranian government condemned the film when it received recognition at Cannes, but France chose Persepolis to be its official representative at the Oscars.
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Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a lar...
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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up ...
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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...
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From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandm...
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In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same kee...
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