Library Binding, 160 pages
English language
Published June 7, 2004 by Tandem Library.
A graphic novel autobiography of Marjane Satrapi and her time growing up both in Iran and abroad as an immigrant.
Amazing, to put between everyone's hands, the graphic format is used very well to capture Iran's history through the autobiographical lens of the author
Amazing, to put between everyone's hands, the graphic format is used very well to capture Iran's history through the autobiographical lens of the author
This is the sort of book that hits you in ways that are hard to write about. This is an autobiographical story of a normal little girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, wants to be a prophet when she grows up, and one day when she goes to school she's told she has to wear a scarf over her head or she'll get in trouble. How can a ten-year-old girl understand why these changes are happening? How does she react, her family, her community? How do these changes affect her and her society? How does the ongoing war, rebellion, and tyranny affect her life? All this is dealt with through the innocent lens of a child and teenager who's trying to understand all the horrors around her.
It's really hard for me to say how good this book is. You read it and there isn't really any sort of …
This is the sort of book that hits you in ways that are hard to write about. This is an autobiographical story of a normal little girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, wants to be a prophet when she grows up, and one day when she goes to school she's told she has to wear a scarf over her head or she'll get in trouble. How can a ten-year-old girl understand why these changes are happening? How does she react, her family, her community? How do these changes affect her and her society? How does the ongoing war, rebellion, and tyranny affect her life? All this is dealt with through the innocent lens of a child and teenager who's trying to understand all the horrors around her.
It's really hard for me to say how good this book is. You read it and there isn't really any sort of message behind the words. It's just someone's experience in her childhood, and it reminds me of how fortunate I was growing up and how important political discourse, religious freedom, feminism, and other such concepts are to society. Really brilliant book.
I found this at the public library, and I read it in one night. It was amazing. The narrative was excellent. There is a combination of sweet, humor, and moving that makes for a great memoir as well as a history lesson. As a reader, I was not too happy that her parents did not choose to leave the country when things were turning for the worse. Sure, the Shah was bad, but as history showed, the clerics and their fundamentalist revolution turned out to be worse. Talk about jumping from the frying pan to the fire. However, the book not only looks at the events from her point of view as a child, but it also teaches you a history lesson. I do recommend this, and I will be reading the sequel. In fact, I read it so fast that I did not get time to add it here …
I found this at the public library, and I read it in one night. It was amazing. The narrative was excellent. There is a combination of sweet, humor, and moving that makes for a great memoir as well as a history lesson. As a reader, I was not too happy that her parents did not choose to leave the country when things were turning for the worse. Sure, the Shah was bad, but as history showed, the clerics and their fundamentalist revolution turned out to be worse. Talk about jumping from the frying pan to the fire. However, the book not only looks at the events from her point of view as a child, but it also teaches you a history lesson. I do recommend this, and I will be reading the sequel. In fact, I read it so fast that I did not get time to add it here as "currently reading." This book is a good example of what a good author can do with the graphic novel format.
