Marjane Satrapi

Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.

In 1958, Marjane Satrapi's great-uncle, Nasser Ali Khan, discovers that his beloved musical instrument is irreparably damaged. Renouncing the world and all its pleasures, the musician takes to his bed, closing the door on his wife and children and slipping into his own reveries: flashbacks and flash-forwards from his own childhood through his children's futures. And as the pieces of his story slowly fall into place, we begin to understand the profundity...