{"id":110,"date":"2008-05-12T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/review-of-persepolis-by-marjane-satrapi\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T20:15:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:15:39","slug":"review-of-persepolis-by-marjane-satrapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Review of Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image158\" height=\"110\" alt=\"persepolis.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/persepolis.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Persepolis:\u00a0 The Story of a Childhood,<\/em> by Marjane Satrapi<\/p>\n<p>Pantheon, New York, 2003.\u00a0 Orginally published in France in 2000.\u00a0 153 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a biography told in comic book form.\u00a0 The story is absorbing, and the black and white illustrations convey much emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Marjane Satrapi was ten years old in 1980 in Iran, when girls at her school were required to wear the veil.\u00a0 I love the picture of all the little girls horsing around with the veils they did not want to wear.<\/p>\n<p>The book outlines a difficult period of upheaval, from her perspective as a girl just wanting to enjoy life.\u00a0 We see the rise and fall of political heroes as well as the rise and fall of the family\u2019s hopes.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fairfax County Library, the book is shelved as an adult biography, but it\u2019s also recommended for older teens.\u00a0 There are some heavy themes of war and death and even bargaining with God.<\/p>\n<p>This book holds a powerful story that will stick with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/037571457X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/persepolis.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/persepolis.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persepolis:\u00a0 The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, New York, 2003.\u00a0 Orginally published in France in 2000.\u00a0 153 pages. Here is a biography told in comic book form.\u00a0 The story is absorbing, and the black and white illustrations convey much emotion. Marjane Satrapi was ten years old in 1980 in Iran, when girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,32,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novel","category-historical","category-nonfiction-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}