Embroideries
Published on 4. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-224-08740-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbours for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talk. Naturally, the subject turns to loves, sex and vagaries of men...
Reviews / Votes
This is a book to provoke and entertain -- Peter Millar * The Times * Satrapi's drawings are sparing and highly stylised; she is able to render nuances of expression with simple, bold strokes... The stories are wittily told and show a side of life in Iran that is unknown to outsiders -- Lydia Adetunji * Financial Times * A daring and brilliantly calculated illumination of a secret space... Though Embroideries is not a continuation of the Persepolis story, it sits at the heart of the same world - a brutally policed society where an extraordinarily rich and inventive culture still prevails, if only behind closed doors, where women are wildly subversive, funny, free-thinking and sexy -- Maureen Freely * Guardian * This is Sex and the City, Middle-Eastern style - outrageous, explicit and funny -- Kelly Knox * Time Out *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
171 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-224-08740-7 (9780224087407)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the French school, before leaving for Vienna and then Strasbourg to study illustration. She has written several children's books and her commentary and illustrations appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. She is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning graphic novel autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, also a major international motion picture. She currently lives in Paris.