![]() At the beginning of "Persepolis," she recalls her early obsession with becoming God's new Prophet. Marjane Satrapi spent the first fourteen years of her life in Tehran, as the daughter of well-educated, middle-class, left-wing parents. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comicbook makes "Persepolis" totally unique and indispensable. It has the strange quality of a note in a bottle written by a shipwrecked islander. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. ![]() Nor will it be the luxurious quality of the production a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Follow thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). ![]()
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