Persepolis is a nonfiction graphics novel about a little girl named Marjane that is growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Marjane goes through the novel telling us about how her school went from being normal to wearing “the veil”, friends and family being sent to prison or killed, bombings, and her fight with religion as time moves on with the revolution from the ages of 6 – 14. Marjane does little things from forming pretend protests with friends to reading all about revolutionists and begging her parents to take her to adult protests to becoming a flat out rebel against the war after a neighbor dies. This is an important book that can reflect to kids about war and how it can quickly change the way the world is viewed after tragic events are happening left and right and how you can feel lost in the mist of everything.
This book can be very dark at times with how the author is depicting everything that has happened in her life, she managed to capture the good, bad, and the ugly in a clear way. Since the book is a graphic novel, it’s Definitely a book I’d suggest to someone that’s a teen that can’t concentrate too much on long books since this can be a quick read with the comic format that’s given. There are some parts that are hard to read since there’s some much death and politics in the book that it can hit you how real all of this was. I’d give the book a 4/5. It’s been made into a movie as well so I may watch it later next week. Persepolis has won the best book for young adults award in 2004 and the Angouleme Coup de coeur award in 2001.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Pantheon, 2004.
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