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Book · 2003 · Nonfiction

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon (Penguin Random House) · 153 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score

Satrapi was a schoolgirl in Tehran when the Shah fell and fourteen when her parents sent her alone to Vienna. She draws the revolution, the war and her exile in black and white.

Medium
Comics
Setting
Iran
Time
2003Depicts 20th century

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