Marjane Satrapi
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
153 p. : chiefly ill.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
84 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...