Persepolis book5/20/2023 ![]() The inner world of little Marji is brilliantly portrayed, as a young child evolving in a militant and revolutionary environment while dealing with her own youthful beliefs at once fascinated by her family’s past and deeply attached to religion. Persepolis’ first tome strives to capture the tense and highly politicized atmosphere reigning within Iran during those times. On 11 February 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is overthrown, and his government is replaced by an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ![]() The first section follows 10-year-old ‘Marji’, born to an Iranian progressive family directly descending from the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty. ![]() ![]() The first published volume of Persepolis details Marjane Satrapi’s coming of age during Iran’s Islamic Revolution through four tomes composed of graphic black-and-white panels. ![]()
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