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author spotlight
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. She is also the author of several children’s books, Embroideries, and the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2. Persepolis is currently being made into an animated feature film, cowritten and codirected by Satrapi, which will be distributed by Sony Picture Classics in 2007.
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Chicken with Plums
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $12.95
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Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $12.95
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Chicken with Plums
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $16.95
In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his... Read more >
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $16.95
In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his... Read more >
The Complete Persepolis
Now a Major Motion Picture
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her... Read more >
Now a Major Motion Picture
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her... Read more >
Embroideries
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $11.95
From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love... Read more >
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $11.95
From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love... Read more >
Embroideries
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $16.95
From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love... Read more >
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $16.95
From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love... Read more >
Embroideries
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: eBook, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $11.95
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Persepolis
The Story of a Childhood
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $12.95
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages... Read more >
The Story of a Childhood
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $12.95
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages... Read more >
Persepolis
The Story of a Childhood
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $18.95
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages... Read more >
The Story of a Childhood
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $18.95
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages... Read more >
Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
The Story of a Return
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $17.95
Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's critically acclaimed memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
In 1984, fourteen-year-old Marjane left behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we... Read more >
The Story of a Return
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $17.95
Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's critically acclaimed memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
In 1984, fourteen-year-old Marjane left behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we... Read more >
Persepolis Boxed Set
Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Boxed Set
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $25.90
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Written by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Boxed Set
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $25.90
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