Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

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Series (with order)

Persepolis (book 1)

Persepolis (1)

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Iran

Tehran, Iran

People/Characters

Marjane Satrapi

Awards and honors

Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award (2001)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2004)

Harvey Award (American Edition of Foreign Material, 2004)

ALA Alex Award (2004)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (2003)

Earned a "fatwa" before it was published, entitled to honors

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Persepolis was originally published in 4 volumes. Some later editions, especially in the U.S., combined volumes 1-2 into one work Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood; volumes 3-4 were combined into Persepolis: The Story of a Return. Keep this in mind when combining/separating.

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0224064401, Hardcover)

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 four volumes. Persepolis on Library Journal's List of Best Books of 2003 & Young Adult Library Services 2004 List of Best Books for Young Adults. 2004 HARVEY WINNER FOR BEST U.S. EDITION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL. [An] extraordinary autobiography....A remarkable, revealing, and sometimes startling account, this is sure to be one of the most important graphic novels of the year. Highly recommended. --Library Journal

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