Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 18, 2012 mstan rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novel, memoir, src-winter-2012-13

Marjane Satrapi is not always likeable. It's not that she doesn't care about showing this side of herself in Persepolis 2 - she does it, in fact, deliberately, to strip away the layers of hypocrisy to arrive at the selfish core of the human trying to survive emotionally and literally in the midst of war. The seed of our brutality, of what human beings can do to each other, lies in every one of us... and to have integrity, to live honestly, according to the rules of Marjane's Grandma, is more dif ...more

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Feb 28, 2015 Nikki Morse rated it it was amazing

Shelves: graphic-novel-memoir

I finished the first Persepolis and dove write into the second - devoured it in a day (a bit easier with a graphic novel). There had been more humor in the first, but the depth of analysis and understanding made up for that loss, and speaks to the difference between childhood stories and young adult stories, in the context of repression, freedom, and grief. I loved these books deeply.

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Jan 01, 2009 Katie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: translated, female-author, memoirs, __middle-east, graphic-novels

This book gives a good, basic summary of the recent history of Iran and a engaging perspective on life during the Islamic Revolution. The book has very likable characters, which makes all of that easy to understand. It was one of those books that I got really absorbed in, and when I put it down, I kept thinking of the characters, and wondered how they were doing.

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