- Comic books, strips, etc., Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects, Families, Girls
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails 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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Prestige, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Marjane Satrapi
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Aḥuzat bayit, RESERVOIR BOOKS, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, heb, English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9788328102873
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Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author
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