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Publication
Imprint: London : Jonathan Cape/Random House, 2004. Originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 3 & Persepolis 4. Edition: First British edition. Responsibility: Marjane Satrapi. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call number
Graphic / Satra / P2
ISBN
0224074407 / 9780224074407
Original publication date
2005 (English translation)
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Description: The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
Table of Contents: The soup --
Tyrol --
Pasta --
The pill --
The vegetable --
The horse --
Hide and seek --
The croissant --
The veil --
The return --
The joke --
Skiing --
The exam --
The makeup --
The convocation --
The socks --
The wedding --
The satellite --
The end.
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Table of Contents: The soup --
Tyrol --
Pasta --
The pill --
The vegetable --
The horse --
Hide and seek --
The croissant --
The veil --
The return --
The joke --
Skiing --
The exam --
The makeup --
The convocation --
The socks --
The wedding --
The satellite --
The end.
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Physical description
187 p.; 24 cm
Awards
Ignatz Award (Winner — 2005)
Village Voice Favorite Books (2004)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2005)
Media reviews
Unlike the first book, it’s disjointed, tawdry, and unfocused. The story of her young adulthood doesn’t demonstrate the insight that made the first book so special.
May Satrapi continue to blend the personal and the political to such extraordinary effect.
Ultimately, Persepolis 2 provides another valuable window into an alien (yet all too human) way of life, but it's a far more difficult book than Persepolis. A child who lets her harsh environment interfere with her empathy for others is understandable and tragic, but an adult with the same problem
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Satrapi's voice is very much her own, and the way the clash between European and Middle Eastern culture has played out in her life makes for compelling reading. What her book lacks, though, is perspective on the cultural revolution in which she and her circle lived (and sometimes died).
Still, her rebellious stunts never undermine Satrapi's unconditional love for her troubled homeland—which, in these times of religious fervor and political gain, resonates all the more poignantly.
Satrapi is the chronicler of both her own life, her own struggles to find a place for herself in a society that seems to be closing down on all sides, as well as the life of a people who were finally coming up for air after Saddam Hussein's missiles stopped falling
Satrapi's story is compelling and extremely complex, not simply in its windings and reversals of fortune but in its manifold ironies and acknowledged contradictions. It would have made a stirring document no matter how it was told, but the graphic form, with its cinematic motion and its style as
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personal as handwriting, endows it with a combination of dynamism and intimacy uniquely suited to a narrative at once intensely subjective and world-historical. Show Less
Description
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran--a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
Language
Original language
French
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LibraryThing member ydraughon
The second part to her comic-strip memior, Satrapi tells of her after the reveloution. Her parents are concerned about the new Islamic government so they have sent her to Austria to live and continue her education. In this book she continues her outspoken political views, experiments with sexual
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freedom and drugs, returns home marries and divorces. Teens can relate to this book about alienation and misunderstanding. I thought that the first book was better. It could also be used more in classroom settings. This book I don't that I would use it in the classroom. Show Less
LibraryThing member norabelle414
Marjane is now a teenager, has left Iran, and is attending school in Vienna. She feels isolated from her peers because they are rich and do not understand what her life was like in a "third-world country". She falls in with a crowd of anarchists who seem to idolize her for her expiriences,
This is really an amazingly accessible book. To a large extent Marjane's troubles are universal: she is a teenager who feels she does not fit in with anyone. She eventually comes around to the idea that the people she shares the most with are those she thought she shared the least with: her parents. At the same time, it's an incredible and emotional picture of Iran from inside, told from the perspective of an ordinary girl, with the assistance of simple drawings. These two graphic novels should be required reading for everyone.
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especially with death. They don't provide her with a sense of belonging any more than her rich classmates did. The isolation eventually crushes her, and she moves back to Iran. There, she has something in common with everyone: the fear and oppression of a religious extremist government. This is really an amazingly accessible book. To a large extent Marjane's troubles are universal: she is a teenager who feels she does not fit in with anyone. She eventually comes around to the idea that the people she shares the most with are those she thought she shared the least with: her parents. At the same time, it's an incredible and emotional picture of Iran from inside, told from the perspective of an ordinary girl, with the assistance of simple drawings. These two graphic novels should be required reading for everyone.
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LibraryThing member maggie1944
Book 46 (I think). Finished reading the Graphic Novel [ Persepolis 2] by Marjane Satrapi. As a teenager Marjane left Iran to live and study in Europe. While there she wrote her first graphic novel about the Iranian revolution and how she and her family coped. The second book is about how she coped
I liked both books. The authors descriptions of late adolescence and young adulthood are very apt, and I could not help but appreciate how difficult it was for her to go through the "revolution". The repressive regime did make her life much more difficult and I admired her ability to work around it successfully until she left Iran for good.
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in Europe; and on return to Iran. There is a gentle naiveté about her writing and yet she does not pull her punches in criticizing the Islamists who have taken over Iran. Ms. Satrapi now lives in Paris, and writes childrens books and for magazines.I liked both books. The authors descriptions of late adolescence and young adulthood are very apt, and I could not help but appreciate how difficult it was for her to go through the "revolution". The repressive regime did make her life much more difficult and I admired her ability to work around it successfully until she left Iran for good.
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LibraryThing member DoraBadollet
A continuation of the story of a young Iranian girl struggling with her Iranian identity and the fundamentalist regime in 1970s and 1980s Iran. The illustrations grip the reader in the same vein as those of Art Spielgelman. Excellent story. (cw)
LibraryThing member stephmo
This continues Marjane's story from the original Persepolis immediately. She is in Austria, save from the war at home, far away from the love and security of family. While in Europe, we experience the Westernization of Marjane which comes both with advantage in intellectual and emotional pursuits.
Marjane's return becomes the second half of the book. Unlike the prior book, this is no longer a cute girl rebelling against the scarf. This is a rebellion with severe stakes. Still, this is a story of a woman learning to remain true to herself while laying out the mistakes that she makes for examination. It's moving, angering and even funny.
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Unfortunately, these pursuits do not come without an overindulgent side. For as much as Marjane is able to flourish in Europe, there comes a point where it nearly swallows her whole and her return to Iran is preferable.Marjane's return becomes the second half of the book. Unlike the prior book, this is no longer a cute girl rebelling against the scarf. This is a rebellion with severe stakes. Still, this is a story of a woman learning to remain true to herself while laying out the mistakes that she makes for examination. It's moving, angering and even funny.
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LibraryThing member eduscapes
The second in a two-part series, Persepolis 2 begins in Austria. It's 1984 and Marjane finds that life in secular Europe is not as wonderful as she had hoped. We follow Marjane through high school and college as she grows into a young adult. While dealing with many of the same themes as Persepolis,
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Satrapi's second book is much darker and cynical than the first. Through simple black and white illustrations, she relates the repression and chauvinism of life in Iran as well as her journey to find her place in the world. Persepolis is a wonderful example of the best in graphic memoir. Show Less
LibraryThing member seph
I started reading this book before bed one evening and quickly swept through a third of it before I realized I really ought to get some sleep. I finished it the next day. It's a quick and very enjoyable read. This second part of Satrapi's memoir deals with her teen and early adult years. I still
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enjoyed her perspective as an Iranian, but I found her perspective as a young adult even more compelling. It makes the world seem all the smaller to know that people from all nations all go through some of the same growth and personal development experiences. This is a charming memoir by a charming and intelligent woman. Show Less
LibraryThing member duck2ducks
Even better than the first. Not sure if it's because Marjane's storytelling abilities had evolved so much more by this point, or because this volume - covering her teenage years and early adulthood - simply appealed to me more in terms of the personal discoveries involved. In any case, she's
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fantastic, and hers is an eye-opening and inspiring story. Show Less
LibraryThing member shawnr
This is the second volume of Satrapi’s Persepolis series, and it spends the bulk of time telling the story of her time spent in an Austrian high school. Marjane’s parents send her abroad to escape the war in Iran, but her time in Europe is a special kind of exile.
Satrapi’s art is similarly
Satrapi deserves her place alongside other notable historical comic artists including Joe Sacco and Art Spiegleman. Persepolis should be on your reading list.
Satrapi’s art is similarly
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good in this volume. The clean lines illustrate the story clearly and compliments the prose. It’s especially interesting to read her thoughts on her fellow students’ reactions to her. Being Iranian in western culture remains a social stigma, and Satrapi illustrates the painfulness of this stigmatization remarkably well.Satrapi deserves her place alongside other notable historical comic artists including Joe Sacco and Art Spiegleman. Persepolis should be on your reading list.
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LibraryThing member cabegley
Persepolis 2 picks up where Persepolis left off, with teenaged Marjane newly arrived in Vienna to go to school. Although her parents had arranged for her to stay with friends, after 10 days she is packed off to a boarding house run by nuns. Marjane bounces from place to place and identity to
Satrapi is as hard on herself as she is on those she feels wronged her throughout her teen and young adult years, including some shameful incidents she could have glossed over. In one story, Satrapi is out on the streets in Iran wearing lipstick, and when a carful of Guardians of the Revolution arrive, she fears they will arrest her for it. To distract them, she accuses a man on the street of saying something indecent to her, and they arrest him instead. She finds this funny, and shares the story with her boyfriend and then with her grandmother. It isn't until her grandmother yells at her and storms out that Satrapi really thinks about what she has done.
I have almost no experience with the graphic format--aside from Persepolis and Persepolis 2 I have read a few short pieces--so I'm not able to judge this book against others of its type. But if they work as well as Satrapi's does, I will be looking for more graphic works. In Persepolis 2, Satrapi uses the words to get across her story and her pictures to do the real talking. Satrapi's story as a troubled teen trying to find herself is compelling, but it is her images of life in Iran after the revolution that haunt.
(A minor note for parents: I took this volume out of the library, where it was shelved under YA (as were all their graphic-format books, apparently). Satrapi depicts sex and drug use frankly in this work, and I would hesitate to call it YA.)
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identity, eventually ending up homeless on the streets of Vienna. When she finally returns home to Iran, she finds that her country has changed as much as she has.Satrapi is as hard on herself as she is on those she feels wronged her throughout her teen and young adult years, including some shameful incidents she could have glossed over. In one story, Satrapi is out on the streets in Iran wearing lipstick, and when a carful of Guardians of the Revolution arrive, she fears they will arrest her for it. To distract them, she accuses a man on the street of saying something indecent to her, and they arrest him instead. She finds this funny, and shares the story with her boyfriend and then with her grandmother. It isn't until her grandmother yells at her and storms out that Satrapi really thinks about what she has done.
I have almost no experience with the graphic format--aside from Persepolis and Persepolis 2 I have read a few short pieces--so I'm not able to judge this book against others of its type. But if they work as well as Satrapi's does, I will be looking for more graphic works. In Persepolis 2, Satrapi uses the words to get across her story and her pictures to do the real talking. Satrapi's story as a troubled teen trying to find herself is compelling, but it is her images of life in Iran after the revolution that haunt.
(A minor note for parents: I took this volume out of the library, where it was shelved under YA (as were all their graphic-format books, apparently). Satrapi depicts sex and drug use frankly in this work, and I would hesitate to call it YA.)
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LibraryThing member BookinKim
In this sequel, Marjane lets readers back into her life in order to share the next portion of it. After conditions in Iran worsen, she moves to Austria. Follow Marjane's adventure as she adjusts to living abroad, crazy roommates, addictions, and not having a home. Will Marjane find a place to live
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in Austria? Or will she have to return home to Iran? Show Less
LibraryThing member sara_k
Persepolis 2 is, of course, the sequel to Persepolis which I read earlier this Summer. At the end of Persepolis, Marjane was being sent away from Iran by her parents to the safety and sanity of Vienna. In Persepolis 2 Marjane chronicles, with great honesty, her sojourn. She has been sent to live
I gave copies of this book to a 12 year old girl, those women in their 30's-40's, and the couple in their 70's. I recommended the book to several men and women in their 40-50's. I read this book along with a 9 year old girl who read Persepolis; we were able to talk about the drug and sexual experiences as part of Marjane's whole story.
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with an Aunt but soon finds herself living without the support of family or community. Marjane struggles to fit in and to not fit in...to be normal but to find that normal outside of the mainstream (where she REALLY doesn't fit in). She encounters situations and adopts habits of which even her liberal parents would not understand or approve. Looking for friendship and stability Marjane finds herself stumbling along believing the best of everyone until she can not mistake their racism or use of her for anything close to friendship. Betrayed and embarrased to admit her failure to her family, MArjane burns several bridges behind her and ends up living on the trains and streets for several monthes. She finally reaches out to her parents only to find that they have always had their arms and hearts open to her. Shaken by her failure in the West, Marjane returns to Iran. Always sassy, she returns to the veiled life a depressed woman. She attempts suicide, her anger and pain are very present. Failing at suicide, she feels a new lease to life and embarks on a dichotomy of veiled life and wild parties. She attends art school, marries, and divorces. Along the way she tries to retain the confidence that her parents had nurtured in her from her childhood; she argues for more appropriate clothing for female art students, talks back to religious enforcers who chastise her for the way her bottom bounces when she runs for a bus, and re-evaluates who she is and who she wants to be. This is all done against the backdrop of militant religious oppression the effects of which are show on Marjane and among her friends and family. I gave copies of this book to a 12 year old girl, those women in their 30's-40's, and the couple in their 70's. I recommended the book to several men and women in their 40-50's. I read this book along with a 9 year old girl who read Persepolis; we were able to talk about the drug and sexual experiences as part of Marjane's whole story.
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LibraryThing member bplma
Marjane Satrapi's honest and compelling memoir of her young adult (15-22)years--continues the story where Persepolis left off. A 15 year old Setrapi arrives alone in Austria only to find herself a virtual refugee in a country she has never visited and does not speak the language. Lonely and
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frightened, and later depressed, Satrapi uses various coping mechanisms--lying, drugs, cynicism--that leave her feeling unhappy and further isolated. At 19, she flees Austria to return to Teheran, only to find herself a refugee (of sorts) in her own country. And things have changed in Iran; politcal repression and war have taken their toll; Even her parents seen to be cynical and have lost much hope. Where in the West she was defined entirely as an Iranian, in Iran she was defined almost entirely as a Westerner and her angst continues. A coming of age story filled with angst; a young woman trying to find her way under a repressive Islamic fundamentalist regime. Painfully honest and thought provoking, we hurt for Satrapi as she tries to discover what is important and who she wants to be. **must be paired with Persepolis I for full impact. I loved it. Show Less
LibraryThing member KevlarRelic
As good as, if not better than the first Persepolis. My only regret is that I was not able to read it in the original french.
LibraryThing member dr_zirk
While not quite as enjoyable as the first volume, Persepolis 2 is still a worthwhile read, since it profiles the author's moves back and forth between life in fundamentalist Iran and a more liberated, if equally frustrating, life in Western Europe. Satrapi isn't afraid to reveal her own
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shortcomings, including her occasional awful behavior towards other people. For me, this is what makes this volume less satisfying than the first - in this second installment, we meet a more mature and rounded narrator (the author), but we also get to know more of her flaws, and discover that she is a less likable person than the child of the first book. Nonetheless, Persepolis 2 is an engaging read, and a nice capstone to Satrapi's story. Show Less
LibraryThing member name99
The author is still at it, complaining about everything in the world and imagining that no-one else has ever suffered like she has.
Her books are interesting for what they say about Iran, but, damn, I wish she'd include more of the outside world and less of her never-ending angst.
Her books are interesting for what they say about Iran, but, damn, I wish she'd include more of the outside world and less of her never-ending angst.
LibraryThing member anyanwubutler
This graphic memoir follows Satrapi’s four years as an adolescent in Austria, and the six years following that back in Iran to her eventual permanent exile to France, from 1984-1994. In Austria she is sent to live at a convent school, and again, runs afoul of the nuns. As a teenager in exile on
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her own, she doesn’t know how to fit in. Austrian teens and adults can’t imagine her experiences in Iran. When she goes back to Iran, they can’t imagine her life in Austria, nor can she imagine theirs in Iran. Eventually, she goes to art school, in her life drawing class, she draws a woman who is entirely shrouded; they learn to draw drapes. “The regime understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my makeup be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it livable? What’s going on in the political prisons?” Apparently, there is a third of these, at least in French, I hope it gets translated soon. I also will try to get the movie based on these books by Satrapi. Show Less
LibraryThing member fyrefly98
Summary: Persepolis 2 continues the story of Persepolis. In this volume, Marjane is a teenager going to school in Austria. The trials and tribulations of teenager-dom are hard enough for anyone, but Marjane is far from her family, doesn't speak the language, and doesn't really fit in with the few
Review: I enjoyed Persepolis 2 just as much as, if not slightly more than, I did Persepolis. While both volumes are a definitely blend of the personal and the political, and deal with the intersection of the two, I thought the first volume was a little more on the political side of things, while this one felt more personal. While that makes the first one carry a little more clout and importance, it also makes the second one more immediately relatable. I mean, I've never lived through a bombing (thank god!), but I certainly did spend part of my teen years feeling like I didn't fit in anywhere. There's nothing to say which of the two approaches makes for a better book - they're just two different books, with different points and different themes (although clearly with the same sensibility.) I think I got more emotionally involved with the second volume, but they're both definitely worth reading. 4 out of 5 stars.
Recommendation: Don't read them out of order, but I definitely recommend both of them.
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friends she has. After graduation, she returns to Iran, but she has to face not only the changes the intervening years have wrought upon her home, but also the fact that she is now considered "too Western" to fit in there, either.Review: I enjoyed Persepolis 2 just as much as, if not slightly more than, I did Persepolis. While both volumes are a definitely blend of the personal and the political, and deal with the intersection of the two, I thought the first volume was a little more on the political side of things, while this one felt more personal. While that makes the first one carry a little more clout and importance, it also makes the second one more immediately relatable. I mean, I've never lived through a bombing (thank god!), but I certainly did spend part of my teen years feeling like I didn't fit in anywhere. There's nothing to say which of the two approaches makes for a better book - they're just two different books, with different points and different themes (although clearly with the same sensibility.) I think I got more emotionally involved with the second volume, but they're both definitely worth reading. 4 out of 5 stars.
Recommendation: Don't read them out of order, but I definitely recommend both of them.
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LibraryThing member bookworm12
This graphic novel has been on my TBR list for far too long. I finally had a chance to read it and I was not disappointed. The first book covers the author’s childhood in war-torn Iran, while the second deals with her teenage and adult years.
At the end of the first book, Satrapi is sent to live
The second book loses a bit of the magic of the first, just as growing up in the real world always does. Instead of an innocent child’s view of a violence and oppression, we have a young woman trying to figure out who she is all while being influenced by both western and eastern cultures. It’s more a coming of age tale than the first book.
“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us.”
At the end of the first book, Satrapi is sent to live
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in Austria without her parents. Thus begins her assimilation to western culture. When she eventually returns to Iran, this creates a dichotomy in her personality. She never felt truly at home in Austria, but when she’s back in Iran, she realizes she doesn’t quite belong there either. The second book loses a bit of the magic of the first, just as growing up in the real world always does. Instead of an innocent child’s view of a violence and oppression, we have a young woman trying to figure out who she is all while being influenced by both western and eastern cultures. It’s more a coming of age tale than the first book.
“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us.”
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LibraryThing member questbird
Marjane Satrapi records the story of her adolescence. In many ways, this is a universal coming-of-age story, with its depictions of alienation, angst, depression and experimentation. The main character feels isolated by her Iranian upbringing when living in Austria, and once more an outsider when
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she returns to Iran. Two things make this book less compelling than the first. The Iranian experiences are much less prominent (partially because a lot of the time is spent away from Iran). The heroine's feistiness and rebellious nature are supressed by self-doubt, and she does some questionable things which makes her a bit more unlikeable (particularly getting an innocent Iranian man arrested in her stead). A good read but not as good as Persepolis. Show Less
LibraryThing member whitreidtan
I read the first Persepolis in an effort to overcome my dislike of graphic novels. And although my opinion of the genre didn't change, I decided to go ahead and read the second of these memoirs (mostly because I already had it waiting for me in the house). It also didn't change my opinion of
Persepolis 2 tells Satrapi's story from her early teens when she left a war torn Iran for Austria, through her unsettled and rootless life in Vienna as she faced culture shock, experienced racism, and rebelled against so much, to her eventual return to Iran and her family, her education once home, her marriage, and her eventual decision to leave Iran forever. As in the first book, the heavy, dark illustrations underline the bleakness of Satrapi's experiences. She endured much at an age long before anyone should be asked to shoulder such responsibility and the unsophisticated, simple artwork conveys that.
Her tale is a wrenching one but for me, the drawings detract from the sympathy I should have been feeling. And I couldn't shake the feeling that there was much left out, especially anything positive, at least in part because of the constraints of graphic novels. Overall, everything about the story felt detached to me. I know that both Persepolis and Persepolis 2 have earned much acclaim but they just didn't move me. Whether I would have appreciated the story told in a more traditional novel format I can't say, but I definitely think that graphic novels are not for me.
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graphic memoirs. I think I'm just not destined to like them much. It's not a snobbery thing. I appreciate how difficult it is to be succinct, draw aesthetically pleasing pictures, and manage to marry the two in such a way that they tell a complex and nuanced story. I just don't enjoy the result. A personal failing perhaps, but there you have it.Persepolis 2 tells Satrapi's story from her early teens when she left a war torn Iran for Austria, through her unsettled and rootless life in Vienna as she faced culture shock, experienced racism, and rebelled against so much, to her eventual return to Iran and her family, her education once home, her marriage, and her eventual decision to leave Iran forever. As in the first book, the heavy, dark illustrations underline the bleakness of Satrapi's experiences. She endured much at an age long before anyone should be asked to shoulder such responsibility and the unsophisticated, simple artwork conveys that.
Her tale is a wrenching one but for me, the drawings detract from the sympathy I should have been feeling. And I couldn't shake the feeling that there was much left out, especially anything positive, at least in part because of the constraints of graphic novels. Overall, everything about the story felt detached to me. I know that both Persepolis and Persepolis 2 have earned much acclaim but they just didn't move me. Whether I would have appreciated the story told in a more traditional novel format I can't say, but I definitely think that graphic novels are not for me.
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LibraryThing member Ayling
I enjoyed this, but it isn't as good as the first book.Persepolis 2 starts directly after the first book and tells the story of how Marjane growing up as a teenager and a young woman, trying to find where her identity lay.She's an incredibly interesting sounding person, although I wonder what she's
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really like, outside of black and white pictures of her graphic novel?The first one was more humorous and the second more interesting. It is very interesting to see what lies beneath the veil, the hidden rebellion and individuals that perhaps we are not aware of in the western world.A worthwhile read but it didn't really grip me - but that might have been my current mood as I read it in between a lot of other books. Well written/drawn and a very personal, honest account of her life. Show Less
LibraryThing member wouterzzzzz
Still a strong novel, although slightly less than the first Persepolis.
LibraryThing member bderby
In this second volume, Marjane Satrapi depicts her teenage and adult years both away from and returning to Iran. The story of surviving in a new country will, no doubt, be familiar to teens who are simply attempting to survive and fit-in in high-school. Satrapi tells of the struggles she went
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LibraryThing member nmhale
The continuation of Satrapi's story through her early adult years. The themes and ideas that were initiated in the first graphic novel continue to be unraveled here, and my reaction to this story was in line with my earlier response: admiration and surprise as my eyes were opened to a part of our
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world I had never really considered before. Once again, I just love her drawing style, and find that the comic images contrast in an intentionally ironic way with content matter. My only disappointment was that this story is after Satrapi has already become older, so we don't get any more images of her delightful childhood and the fiery little girl that she was. That's not a criticism of the book, of course, because this is a biography, and she is older now, naturally. I just really liked her depiction of herself as a girl. Overall, a fantastic story, a real stand out in the graphic novels department. Highly worth reading. Show Less