The complete Persepolis
(Comic)

Contains the author's Persepolis (2003) and Persepolis 2 (2004). Persepolis was originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2 in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Persepolis 2 was originally published in France in two volumes as Persepolis 3 and Persepolis 4 in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Persepolis is the story of Marjane Satrapi's 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 high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland.

Collects a two-part graphic memoir, in which the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.