Persepolis

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From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

subjects: Comic books, strips, etc.,  Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects,  Families,  Girls,  Graphic novels,  History,  Iran-Iraq War,  Islamic fundamentalism,  Personal narratives,  Revolution, 1979,  Social conditions,  Teenage girls,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Basic reader,  Revolution (Iran : 1979) fast (OCoLC)fst01354530,  Erwachsenwerden,  Cartoons and comics,  COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction,  Psychological aspects,  Emigration and immigration,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,  Islamiska revolutionen 1979,  Biography,  Cartoonists,  Tecknade serier,  Iran,  Historia,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,  Foreign countries,  Iranians,  Comic books, strips,  Women illustrators,  Iranian Women authors,  Personal Memoirs,  Nonfiction,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS,  Women,  Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general,  Iran, biography,  Women, biography,  nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2009-09-13,  New York Times bestseller,  Chauvinism and jingoism,  War,  Practical Politics,  Politics and government,  Social life and customs,  Coming of age,  15.75 history of Asia,  Manners and customs,  Islam,  Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988,  Art,  Authors, biography,  Girls, biography,  Nonfiction graphic novels,  Pictorial works,  Autobiographical comic books, strips

Places: Iran,  Tehran,  Vienna

Times: 1980-1994