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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis #2)
In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,” Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in V...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
August 2nd 2005
by Pantheon
(first published July 1st 2001)
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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...
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...
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 while different, and so much that m...more
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 while different, and so much that m...more
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 still...more
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 opportunity....more
Aug 05, 2008
Lacey Louwagie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people interested in world politics
Recommended to Lacey by:
a former GEB girl
Shelves:
graphicnovels,
memoir
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
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 to...more
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), this c...more
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.
To me its greatness comes from how she tells her story, and how...more
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.
To me its greatness comes from how she tells her story, and how...more
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 whe...more
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.
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
Didn't like this one as much. I think my biggest qualm was that she associates "freedom" with the ability to sleep with anything male/take all kinds of illicit drugs. I'm all for the idea that people should be free to do stupid things (provided they aren't hurting others), but that's not how she sees it. Somehow she finds herself more "modern" and a better revolutionary than her peers because she's slept with who knows how many guys by the age of 22 (like that's some sort of qualification for be...more
I was in awed with Persepolis 1 and instantly fall in love with the cute child named Marjane. Her stories stop at the end of the book, when she was at the brink of her childhood about to move to another gray uncertain area of life, called teen-agers.
Came Persepolis 2, gone was the sweet Marjane, to be replaced with an unhappy teenager who need to live on her own in alien Vienna. This book dealt with her hardship in adjusting to a life in Vienna. The book further brought the readers into her tum...more
Came Persepolis 2, gone was the sweet Marjane, to be replaced with an unhappy teenager who need to live on her own in alien Vienna. This book dealt with her hardship in adjusting to a life in Vienna. The book further brought the readers into her tum...more
Persepolis 2 picks up where Persepolis leaves off. With the advent of the Iranian Revolution, Satrapi’s parents send her to Austria to live with a family friend, who immediately sends her off to boarding school. At the age of 14, Satrapi experiences all the things a girl coming of age endures: first love, struggles with self-confidence, self-awareness. But, additionally she must contend with the immigrant experience, the prejudice of Iranians of the time, culture shock, illness, and homelessness...more
Book 2 of Persepolis picks up exactly where book 1 ends. Satrapi is a teenager who goes to Vienna to continue her education away from the oppressive Islamic Regime that is ruling Iran. Book 2’s Marjane Satrapi is older and much more impulsive than the Satrapi in Book 1. I did not like this sequel to Persepolis 1 because the main character, Marjane, is much less relatable and un-engaging than the girl in Persepolis 1. As an Iranian who, like Satrapi, also left Iran at the age of fourteen, I have...more
This sequel resonated with me on so many more levels than the first book, probably because Marjane and I went through some very, eerily similar things upon our entrance into long-term living in the west. She also went abroad alone -- albeit to Vienna instead of Los Angeles -- and our experiences were so parallel. I found myself choking up so much while reading this book, thinking about my own life and how hard it was for me when I left home, trying to find my way in a land and culture that was f...more
Persepolis 2 begins where 1 left off. Marjane, now a teenager, leaves Iran to escape the perils of the revolution and attend school in Austria. Teenage years are difficult for many but Marjane's problems are compounded by the alienation of feeling neither European nor fully Iranian anymore. She befriends a bunch of punks and misfits, gets expelled for insolance, finds and loses love, experiements with drugs, and completely loses herself, with dangerous results, before finally returning to Iran t...more
A graphic novel spanning several years in the life of the author, covering Marjane’s life as a youngster living in Iran, then leaving Iran for Austria to study in her early teens, then her return to Iran at the end of her teens, her marriage, divorce, and finally, leaving for France in young adulthood.
Although it was gripping, I had some difficulty connecting with this story, not while reading it, but afterwards, as I was thinking about it. I felt strangely disassociated from the traumatic event...more
Although it was gripping, I had some difficulty connecting with this story, not while reading it, but afterwards, as I was thinking about it. I felt strangely disassociated from the traumatic event...more
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“The Story of a Return”, is the second part of the wondrous comic, Persepolis. In the second part of Marjane Satrapi's telling of her life, the reader witnesses her hardships in assimilating in Vienna, and adjusting to her new life without her parents or her culture. The comic grasps one of the most universal messages, one of assimilation. Just like Marjane Satrapi, we all have a hard time assimilating. For her, it may have been harder, as she goes from the r...more
“The Story of a Return”, is the second part of the wondrous comic, Persepolis. In the second part of Marjane Satrapi's telling of her life, the reader witnesses her hardships in assimilating in Vienna, and adjusting to her new life without her parents or her culture. The comic grasps one of the most universal messages, one of assimilation. Just like Marjane Satrapi, we all have a hard time assimilating. For her, it may have been harder, as she goes from the r...more
Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return is the sequel to Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood, the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi. Marjane is a strong girl, who follows in her parents' footsteps. Even though Marjane's view of the world changes as she grows, from a small little girl to a full grown woman, her feelings on life remain the same and has always been a fighter. Sometimes her actions seem rebellious, and they get her into trouble, but this doesn't change her feelings or ambitions. Satrapi...more
This book is the sequel to Marjane Satrapi's first book "Persepolis". In "Persepolis 2", Marjane picks up right where she left off. It's a compelling memoir about her life growing up during the time of danger and revolution. She dedicated her book to her parents, which I found respected and thoughtful. This book is illustrated excellently in graphic novel form. It was also written from the perspective of "I" telling her life story and what it was like for her growing up in times of revolt and vi...more
In this volume of Marjane Satrapi's graphic autobiography, she describes 10 years of her life from her youth as an immigrant in Austria to her return to her homeland, Iran, and finally her decision to leave again. While labeled as a "young adult" book, its references to pretty mature subjects lift it to another level - the volume includes references to drug use, premarital sex, gays, infidelity, homelessness, a suicide attempt and various other experiences that make it more appropriate for matur...more
Persepolis 2 is the story of Marjane Satrapi's youth spent away from her Iranian parents in school in Vienna and her subsequent return to Tehran. This stage of Satrapi's story has a personal darkness that was missing in Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. While Persepolis had elements of oppression, most of it was external to the narrator - it was the world she lived in that was oppressive. Yet in the freedom of her youth in Vienna, Satrapi was lost, unmoored and, in many ways, desolate.
Near t...more
Near t...more
Satrapi returns to her graphic novel memoir with a tour de force of sex, drugs, teenage rebellion, and identity crises. Marjane is now a teenager and in Vienna to attend high school. Although she has left the horrors of revolution behind in Iran, she now has the horrors of adolescence to deal with. Feeling like an outsider no matter where she goes, Marjane attempts to fit in only to feel like she is betraying her heritage, her religion, and her mother. Heavy stuff for a teenager alone in a forei...more
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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 the I...more
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 the I...more
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 watching our...more
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 watching our...more
"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 clearly that "comic books" are no...more
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 just been sent to Eur...more
::: Europe :::
When Satrapi left us at the end of the first book, she had just been sent to Eur...more
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 same focus...more
Persepolis II does not have the same focus...more
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Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Farsi, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She att...more
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