Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi’s simplistic yet expressive black-and-white artwork), the story shows how young Marjane learns about her family history and how it is entwined with the history of Iran, and watches her liberal parents cope with a fundamentalist regime that gets increasingly rigid as it gains more power. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. As she grows up, she witnesses first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with Iraq have on her home, family and school. Set in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, it follows the young Satrapi, six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists.
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman’s classic Maus.
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