Marjane Satrapi, Author . Pantheon $17.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-42230-0
Satrapi's autobiography is a timely and timeless story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution. Descended from the last Emperor of Iran, Satrapi is nine when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah. While Satrapi's radical...
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Marjane Satrapi, Author . Pantheon $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-42288-1
Part one of Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel found her surviving war, the Islamic Revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several close friends. If part two covers less traumatic events, it's also more subtle and, in...
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Marjane Satrapi, Author . Pantheon $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-375-42305-5
This slight follow-up to Satrapi's acclaimed Persepolis
books explores the lives of Iranian women young and old. The book begins with Satrapi arriving for afternoon tea at her grandmother's house. There, her mother, aunt and their group of...
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Marjane Satrapi, Author . Pantheon $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-42415-1
The question of what makes a life worth living has rarely been posed with as much poignancy and ambition as it is in Satrapi's dazzling new effort. Satrapi's talent for distilling complex personal histories into richly evocative vignettes...
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Edited by Marjane Satrapi, trans. from the French by Una Dimitrijevic. Seven Stories, $35.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64421-405-3
Satrapi (Persepolis) brings together a sweeping anthology of political essays in comics form that takes its title from the protest chant of the feminist uprising in Iran following the 2022 beating to death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by...
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