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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi is the artist behind the graphic novel Persepolis. She's known for her autobiographical storytelling, often exploring themes of childhood, identity, and her experiences growing up in Iran.
Persepolis 3
Synopsis
The third volume of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel follows Marji as a teenager sent alone to Vienna to escape the war and repression in Iran. Boarding first with nuns and later drifting between households and friends, she is caught between cultures, unsure how to explain where she is from or fit into a Western adolescence around her.
Isolated from her family and increasingly unmoored, she cycles through relationships and living situations, her homesickness deepening into a harder, more private struggle. The volume traces her hardest years abroad, ending as circumstances push her back toward home.
Rendered in Satrapi's spare black-and-white style, it is a stark account of displacement and the cost of exile on a teenager far from everything familiar.