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Book Review: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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- Date finished: August 6th, 2019
- Pages: 341
- Format: Paperback
- Form: Novel
- Language read in: English
- Series: Series
- Genre: Contemporary | Magic | Children’s Fiction
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This story is everything to me. Perhaps it’s a personal thing because it takes place in Tehran, Iran where my mom was born and raised and in Vienna, Austria where my dad was born and raised. Satrapi’s life as a woman reconciling the modern woman with the traditional one – the Western with the Iranian one as well as all the fights for her freedom, living through the islamic revolution are all important part of the story, as well as her growth from childhood to adulthood. There is so much to unpack – her story is at once singular but with a touch of universal feeling because the fight to freedom and to being one own’s person will always be prominent.
“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”
“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.”
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