This is Marjane Satrapi's remarkable graphic story of her childhood in Tehran from 1980 when it became obligatory for schoolgirls to wear the veil. She spends some years in Austria and then returns to study at the University. Her text is framed by simple, stark, often humorous, black and white drawings illustrating the bewildering contrasts between the warmth of family life and the outside world of revolution, repression and war. New to graphic books? Try this one!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 74 Autumn 2014 ) |
