Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Marjane Satrapix{0026}lt;/B nació en 1969 en Rasht (Irán) y vive en Francia desde 1994. La publicación de x{0026}lt;I Persépolis x{0026}lt;/I (2000-2003), una innovadora serie de cómics autobiográficos, le valió un éxito fulgurante en Europa y Estados Unidos. Siguieron dos novelas gráficas más para adultos, x{0026}lt;I Bordados x{0026}lt;/I (2003) y x{0026}lt;I Pollo con ciruelasx{0026}lt;/I (2004), así como varios libros infantiles. Ha colaborado en revistas y periódicos de todo el mundo, y actualmente se dedica a la dirección cinematográfica, con cinco películas en su haber, entre ellas las adaptaciones de x{0026}lt;I Persépolis x{0026}lt;/I (2007) y x{0026}lt;I Pollo con ciruelas x{0026}lt;/I (2011).x{0026}lt;/P