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Nov 08, 2011

Jessica rated it:

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Dec 03, 2008

Palsay rated it:

duhh...Marji....pusing deh gw kalo jadi ibunya...
Sayang banget anak yang cerdas dan penuh bakat ini harus melewati banyak kesalahan sebelum akhirnya menemukan jalannya.

pelajaran yang saya tarik dari novel grafis ini: Semakin percaya bahwa agama memang sangat penting bagi kehidupan kita, selama tidak dihubungkan dengan politik dan kekuasaan.

Dan rasanya jadi makin bersyukur jadi orang Indonesia dan hidup di Indonesia...

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Mar 14, 2008

stephanie rated it:

i almost like this installment better than Persepolis, but i know that's because of how amazing the first book was.

this installment finds marji in austria, where she is shuttled from place to place, getting her french education, while her family and friends remain in tehran.

it's the story of a "third-worlder" in the west, and then an attempt to return home. it's almost more heartbreaking than the first book, because there is so much in here that is familiar w More...

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Sep 18, 2009

Jason rated it:

Everyone needs to step off! Geez! This book is great. It doesn't have that cute little panache of the first book because, duh, it's not about pre-teen issues which are cute and naive--it's about the world of impulsive effacement that drags a teenager to become a young adult. She comes to be a part of the Western world she idealized and finds it colder, in a more subtle, acute way, than the repressive regime she escapes in the first book. Because as violent and absurd as the regime is, she s More...

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Apr 05, 2009

Chandra rated it:

If you read Persepolis 1 you are pretty much compelled to pick up the second because it leaves you with such a cliffhanger. To sum up - after years of struggling to fit in in a rigid and oppressive Iran Marjane's parents decide to send her to Vienna for a better chance at life. Book one ends as Marjane boards the plane watching her mother faint in her father's arms. My heart was really touched by this act of selflessness and I had to know how Marjane fared and what she did with this opportuni More...

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Aug 05, 2008

Lacey rated it:

The girl who originally recommended the Persepolis books to me told me that the second one wasn't as good as the first (which kept me from being motivated to read the second, but when I found out the new Persepolis movie covers both books, well . . . I have this thing about reading books before I see the movies.) I'm glad I did pick this up; although it gets off to a slower start than Persepolis, it's worth the wait. Since Marjane is an adult in this book, it's easier to see how oppressive the I More...

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Nov 21, 2007

sdw rated it:

I didn't end up liking this book as much as Persepolis 1 , but I'm not exactly sure why. The story picks up the narrative of the first one, and I had to wonder how a reader’s encounter with Persepolis 2 would be without having read the first. The book marks Marji's unhappy time in Austria, her return to Iran, and her departure from Iran, mirroring the first book. It is a coming-of-age tale of adolescence into young adult hood. Satrapi’s skill as a graphic novelist is astonishing. Her ability More...

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Feb 03, 2008

Visha rated it:

Well.....I truly loved the first Persepolis, where the childhood story is told. I find the older (less wiser?) Satrapi far less sympathetic or engaging. Often, the character is downright abrasive and huge gaps are left in the story, with, once again, an ending that does not provide complete closure (not that it's a necessity to tie up loose ends... but it seemed like this book could warrant it more). Despite the paling against Persepolis 1, (less text, more action in that book, at least), thi More...

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May 10, 2008

Ian rated it:

I borrowed both parts one and two of Persepolis from my friend Margaret. I flew through them both in one afternoon.

They are a stunningly beautiful story of a girl growing up. People talk about the politics, the history and all of that... Yeah, that stuff is there, but ultimately its a story about a child trying to find who she is. The circumstances surrounding her are extraordinary, but that's only part of what makes it a good story.

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Mar 18, 2008

Patrick rated it:

The second half of Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel finds her graduating high school in Austria and returning, in what she feels is shame, to her tumultuous and repressive native land of Iran in the late 1980's, where she finds herself alienated from her peers, looking for true love, searching for her personal identity, etc. It's strange that something so culturally different in terms of era and geography can still be so easy to relate to. I'm pretty excited to see the animated movie w More...

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Apr 12, 2009

Michelle rated it:

The first book was touching and memorable. In the second one, adolescent Marjane just got on my nerves. However, I did appreciate the episodes with her grandmother.

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Jul 15, 2009

Ellen rated it:

The second book in the Persepolis series. The last time we left off Marjane was leaving Iran to live in Vienna and away from the repressive regime. However, teenage Marjane now finds herself on her own. Great follow up to the first book but definitely more bleak. My heart went out to Marjane who gets kicked out her first home, sent to live with nuns, kicked out again (after calling the nuns whores), lives with friends, finds an apartment and eventually starts living on the streets after her land More...

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Dec 24, 2011

Pawan rated it:

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The name and the cover of the book attracted my attention in the bookstore and when I flipped the pages I found that the story was written in a comic strip form. The information on the back page was intriguing and I picked up this book without having any more information about it. “Persepolis” which is reference to ancient capital of Persia (Today’s Iran) is an autobiographical account of author Marjane Satrapi about her growing years in Iran before and after More...

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Oct 04, 2011

Amanda rated it:

After loving the first story, I expected to love the second. I sadly didn't.
The plot sounded promising. How was Marjane's life after she left Iran and how it was to come back to her war torn home years later? All ready I'm pulled in. And it was very good, don't get me wrong, it's just the first story was so impressive that it doesn't hold up by comparisson.
Marjane talked less about her country and daily life and more about drugs and sex, and while it's realistic it still wears thin w More...

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May 30, 2011

Jkerber1 rated it:

"Persepolis 2," like its predecessor, "Persepolis," amazed me with its ability to make it enjoyable reading about sad and difficult times, while still fully conveying how sad and difficult it was. Satrapi also beautifully delivers the story through use of simple black-and-white drawings which have made me realize the truth behind the saying "A picture's worth a thousand words." Graphic novels like this have proved to be a new, interesting genre that demonstrates c More...

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May 21, 2011

Cyndy rated it:

After reading Marjane Satrapi's first novel, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, I was riveted, and felt as if I was left hanging at the end, wanting to know what happened to this girl who would suddenly be on her own in Europe after her parents sent her out of Iran to safety. Persepolis: The Story of a Return continues this story, and the events are almost more difficult than those of the first book.

::: Europe :::

When Satrapi left us at the end of the first book, she had j More...

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Apr 23, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

Marjane's struggle continues in Austria and later in Iran. Trying to find a comfortable place in life has become difficult for Marjane while living in Austria. Nothing she tries seems to be working. Hence, she decides to return to Iran to be with her family. Upon her return, she goes through many phases that eventually results in contentedness. But how long can Marjane be happy with her life in a repressive Iran when she has such a strong-willed spirit?

Persepolis II does not have the s More...

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Mar 25, 2010

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Synopsis: Persepolis 2 is the story that geos with the first book, persepolis. In this book Marjane is sent to Europe to attend school there because the Tehran schools were not working for her family. When she's away from her parents she faces a lot of hardships and has to be independent.She grows up alot in the four years that she is away from home. she forgets about her traditions and starts smoking and living on the streets.
Target audience: teens+
Primary Purpose: to share her life More...

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Mar 06, 2010

Evelyn rated it:

When I purchased the first volume a Barnes & Noble, a sales associate recommended that I pick up the second volume, too. She was convinced that once I finished the first, I'd come right back to the store to get the second. I'm glad she saved me that trip, because the moment I finished the first - I flipped right over to the second book.

It's a natural continuation of the first novel in the series, starting from Marjane's adolescence in Austria, 1984. Here, among an eccentric group of More...

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Jan 05, 2010

Shelah rated it:

I loved Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis when I read it a few years ago. Persepolis 2 takes place where the first graphic novel left off, with a teenage Marjane being sent from Iran to Germany, where they hope she'll be safe during a time of political upheaval. While the original Persepolis was dark, with war and fear and death always looming close to the surface (as I'm sure it must for people who live in countries like Iran), it was also told from the point of view of a child, so there was still s More...

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Nov 29, 2009

Abraham rated it:

I enjoyed reading this, but didn't fall in love. It was very reminiscent of Maus, but a little more disjointed.

I like Satrapi's visual style and her way of weaving visual metaphors into her story. She successfully portrays the complexity of her personality and show her development from child to adult. I love how she works to dismantle the stupid stereotypes that many of us westerners have about Iranian people and culture. There are really powerful moments here that convey the horror More...

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Sep 19, 2009

Irisheyz77 rated it:

Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic memoir detailing her high school years away from Iran and her eventual return to the country of her birth. This book is a follow up to her Persepolis and pretty much starts off where the first book left off.

Once again Satrapi uses the graphic style to tell her story and the visuals really add to her words and in a few places taking the place of words altogether giving weight to the phrase that a 'picture tells a thousand words.' In this pa More...

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Jul 10, 2009

Jason rated it:

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

The farther we progress into the early 2000s, the more convinced I am of how in the future, this period of history will be seen as one where Americans finally started more and more understanding the Middle East in the same semi-complex way they currently understand, say, Europe; because mak More...

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Apr 12, 2009

Kate rated it:

I made the mistake of reading some other reviews that claim that Marjane's depiction of alienation, drug use, and homeless in Austria was largely her own fault, which somehow makes this second part of Satrapi's memoir less enjoyable, which is a ridiculous assertion. From a war torn country, a young (though independent) Marjane struggles to navigate an entirely new culture without the benefit of a personal ambassador or the ability to go home to regroup before attempting again to find herself in More...

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May 06, 2011

Dawn rated it:

Wonderful. I hate that I've finished. I never get tired of hearing about Marjane's life. In this second story, she is just arriving in Vienna, Austria, at age 14. She spends 4 years there - and what a 4 years they are! She had believed upon arriving that she would live with her good friend and her friend's family, but her friend's mother drops her off at a boarding house run by nuns. She has good experiences and bad - makes and loses friends - does well at school - falls in love ... after a bad More...

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Apr 11, 2010

Lauren rated it:

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Dec 27, 2009

Justin rated it:

To the extent Satrapi conveys lifestyle in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, thumbs up. But both volumes suffer from relentless self-indulgence. I could never identify with her. I realize that Persepolis is a memoir, but memoirs are for memorable experiences, not the trivial disappointments of a teenager. Her angst seemed unconnected with the horrors of Iran. While she suffers from an oppressive regime and the associated loss of extended family, those structures only seem to provide window More...

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Mar 25, 2009

Jillian rated it:

I think I love Iran. Every time I read about it I am so intrigued by how the people there are "just like us" even though their regime is more or less the opposite of ours, and they are brainwashed by its ideology constantly. Part of the reason these books are so wonderful is that they make it so easy to read and understand about war and tragedy because it's all done with cute illustrations. The juxtaposition of graphic novel + horrible angst balance each other out so well.

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Aug 23, 2011

Aaron rated it:

The summary of Persepolis 2 is a girl named Marjane Strapi (also the author) is sent away to live in Europe from her home country of Iran. While in europe Marjane is exposed to a culture much different than the one that she came from and is used to. Marjane meets new friend who teach her these new Europen ways, and ultimately these new found ways of thinking effect Marjane's character throughout the rest of the novel. Marjane goes back to her home country of Iran and is faced with hardships in g More...

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Feb 17, 2011

Heidi rated it:

I didn't enjoy Persepolis 2 as much as I did the first one, but that reaction could be based on my distaste for teenaged self-involved misery (stemming from my own teenage years). Instead of being frustrated throughout the narration with the Iranian revolutionary regime, I was annoyed by Satrapi's immaturity and self-destruction. To be clear, I was definitely still frustrated and upset by the regime--especially its treatment of women--and I completely understand how natural it would be for a y More...

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