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The complete Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2007Copyright date: �2004Edition: First editionDescription: 341 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780375714832
  • 0375714839
  • 9781435276253
  • 1435276256
Other title:
  • Persepolis
Uniform titles:
  • Persepolis. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955.05/42092 22
LOC classification:
  • PN6747.S245 P4713 2007
Other classification:
  • BIO022000 | BIO026000
  • J238.2
  • EV 7699
  • EV 881
Contents:
Persepolis: the story of a childhood -- Persepolis: the story of a return.
Introduction -- The veil -- The bicycle -- The water cell -- Persepolis -- The letter -- The party -- The heroes -- Moscow -- The sheep -- The trip -- The F-14s -- The jewels -- The key -- The wine -- The cigarette -- The passport -- Kim Wilde -- The Shabbat -- The dowry -- The soup -- Tyrol -- Pasta -- The pill -- The vegetable -- The horse -- Hide and seek -- The croissant -- The veil -- The return -- The joke -- Skiing -- The exam -- The makeup -- The convocation -- The socks -- The wedding -- The satellite -- The end.
Summary: Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.
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Contains the author's Persepolis (2003) and Persepolis 2 (2004). Persepolis was originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2 in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Persepolis 2 was originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 3 and Persepolis 4 in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Persepolis: the story of a childhood -- Persepolis: the story of a return.

Introduction -- The veil -- The bicycle -- The water cell -- Persepolis -- The letter -- The party -- The heroes -- Moscow -- The sheep -- The trip -- The F-14s -- The jewels -- The key -- The wine -- The cigarette -- The passport -- Kim Wilde -- The Shabbat -- The dowry -- The soup -- Tyrol -- Pasta -- The pill -- The vegetable -- The horse -- Hide and seek -- The croissant -- The veil -- The return -- The joke -- Skiing -- The exam -- The makeup -- The convocation -- The socks -- The wedding -- The satellite -- The end.

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

Reading Counts RC High School 7.8 13 Quiz: 01467 Guided reading level: NR.

Translated from the French.