Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Book #32 of my 50 Book Challenge for 2005. The author said she wrote this as a break between Persepolis and Persepolis 2. It has the same charm and humor of Persepolis, but feels more slight, both in weight and in content, like the graphic novel equivalent of a novella. It centers on an after-lunch gathering of women for tea and discussion of others and each other, and their mostly difficult relations with men. The title refers to a method of falsely re-creating virginity, a practice that one story told with disastrous results. As with Persepolis, the art is deliberately simple. It is easy to find points of recognition in the stories, even with women of different age and culture.
May 28th, 2005 at 6:43 am
I enjoyed Persepolis I and II, particularly as we were reading _Lolita in Tehran_ at the same point. Being a graphic novel, they were both quick reads. But the aspects of oppression and then odd freedom were more visceral than in LiT.