The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi - ★★★★.½
AUTHOR: Marjane Satrapi SERIES: Persepolis #1-4 GENRE: Graphic Memoir PUBLICATION DATE: October 30, 2007 RATING: 4.5 stars. The first thing that comes to my mind when you say "graphic novel" is that it's a fancy word for a comic book. The first thing that comes to my mind when you say "Iran" is oppression. I might still be right about the second word association but I was sorely mistaken about the first. Persepolis is not a comic, and is no way meant for children. Thanks to a friend who had posted a series of superb lines from Persepolis on our Facebook group, I was absolutely itching to read the famed book asap, though I have never ever read a graphic novel before. And now that I have read it, the itch isn't satisfied, for it has left me with a zillion thoughts. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the novel, narrates the story of her life in Iran, Europe and Iran again. The truth with which she relates every instance, even in the cases where she goofs up in her ...