From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Read for the "Read a book that is set in the Middle East" category for the 2016 BookRiot Read Harder challenge (to be reviewed)
Since the other book I read for this category (Cleopatra: A Life) wasn't 100% set in the Middle East and was set so far in the past, I decided to add a second book for this category. Having seen and enjoyed the movie adaptation of The Complete Persepolis, I decided to try this graphic non-fiction memoir. It was a bit heavier than I was expecting. I haven't read many grap ...more
Since the other book I read for this category (Cleopatra: A Life) wasn't 100% set in the Middle East and was set so far in the past, I decided to add a second book for this category. Having seen and enjoyed the movie adaptation of The Complete Persepolis, I decided to try this graphic non-fiction memoir. It was a bit heavier than I was expecting. I haven't read many grap ...more
En esta novela gráfica cuenta la historia de Nasser Ali, un músico que toca el tar, cuya vida toma un giro inesperado.
La narración se centra en solamente ocho días, sin embargo, además de los hechos del presente, se relatan episodios del pasado que Nasser está relacionando, para llegar a una revelación del por qué se centra en esos días. Es indudable que el desenlace es una forma de reaccionar a esos eventos del pasado y sus repercusiones en el presente.
Me parece que lo más destacable es la for ...more
La narración se centra en solamente ocho días, sin embargo, además de los hechos del presente, se relatan episodios del pasado que Nasser está relacionando, para llegar a una revelación del por qué se centra en esos días. Es indudable que el desenlace es una forma de reaccionar a esos eventos del pasado y sus repercusiones en el presente.
Me parece que lo más destacable es la for ...more
This is a quiet reflection on what and why we live. Nasser Ali Khan is a musician. It is all he has done, all he thinks he can do. When his tar is broken, he loses his way to connect to the world.
This was a real quiet meditation on death and dying, reflecting on life and relationships, mistakes and good days.
Satrapi’s art is bold and basic, and it works really well for this story.
This might be one of my favorites.
This was a real quiet meditation on death and dying, reflecting on life and relationships, mistakes and good days.
Satrapi’s art is bold and basic, and it works really well for this story.
This might be one of my favorites.
Nowhere near as complex or involving as Persepolis, Satrapi is bringing her own ideas and experiences to the page to try to understand why her uncle just decided to lay down and die one week. The way in which Persepolis triumphed was the intimate world in which we were allowed to explore, much like David B's 'Epileptic' but Chicken with Plums doesn't allow nearly the same experience, leaving us with the husk of a person.
Perhaps thats all she could decipher of her uncle himself, but it doesnt ma ...more
Perhaps thats all she could decipher of her uncle himself, but it doesnt ma ...more
Not as good as her Persepolis series, I reckon.
Aug 28, 2015
Emilie
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2016-reading-challenge
2016 READING CHALLENGE: A graphic novel
Jan 09, 2008
Kari
rated it
liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
graphic-novel,
read-in-2006
Feb 17, 2025
Lori
rated it
liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
middleeast,
2025popsugarlist
Sep 29, 2020
Jessica Haider
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
non-fiction,
graphic-novels
