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Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life: an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran. Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor - with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state - Persepolis 2 is also as clear-eyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its cost to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood - here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear make-up, run in public, date, or question authority - it's raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Autobiography: general

• Full title: Persepolis 2
• Author: Marjane Satrapi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780224074407
• ISBN: 0224074407
• ID: 04038566
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 370 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2004

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