Persepolis: - Volume 1 and 2

Informationen zum Autor Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including the New Yorker and the New York Times . She is the author of several children's books, as well as the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling memoir Persepolis , which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded the first Fernando Bueso Blanco Peace Prize in Spain. Klappentext Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In four volumes. Persepolis on Library Journal's List of Best Books of 2003 & Young Adult Library Services 2004 List of Best Books for Young Adults. 2004 HARVEY WINNER FOR BEST U.S. EDITION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL. [An] extraordinary autobiography....A remarkable, revealing, and sometimes startling account, this is sure to be one of the most important graphic novels of the year. Highly recommended. --Library Journal Zusammenfassung Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from the ages of six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marjane Satrapi, Marjane Strapi
• Edition: JONATHAN CAPE
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780224080392
• ISBN: 978-0-224-08039-2
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Iran, Autobiography: general, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, European tradition graphic novels