"Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland....

Spanish translation of the graphic novel "Persepolis". An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Suitable for young adults.

"Persépolis nos cuenta la revolución islámica iraní vista desde los ojos de una niña que asiste atónita al cambio profundo que experimentan su país y su familia, mientras ella debe aprender a llevar el velo. Intensamente personal y profundamente político, el relato autobiográfico de Marjane Satrapi examina qué significa crecer en un ambiente de guerra y represión política."--Back cover.