Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Bought for a teenager, they love the graphics and story.

Love it

Marjane Satrapi's follow up to her comic book on growing to be a teenager in Iran, is cleverly written, with a wonderful sense of humour, so necessary to survive and handle a very difficult life from the point of view of her Western readers. Her drawings are wonderful, in simple and subtle ways conveying the emotional highs and lows and shocks, providing an excellent accompaniment to the text. I saw the film a few years back, but still enjoyed the book

Love this book

Without seeing her photograph I can't be sure, but I guess that Marjane Satrapi's self-portraits - which feature throughout this book - are not flattering. If so, that would be completely in keeping with the text which consistently reveals Satrapi candidly even when in her most immature and vain moments. She can be pretty blunt about some of her friends and relatives too. All this brutal honesty is a fitting accompaniment to the startling tales she reveals from within the Iranian fundamentalist regime. There can be no more accessible insight into this extraordinary country. My review of "Persepolis" described it as a "must read. "2" is more of the same so if you loved the first don't stop now!

Just as well told and interesting as the first Persepolis!

Insightful, brilliant and merciless.

You wont be able to put down these graphic novels. Absolutely beautiful.

Después de leer Persepolis 1, que por cierto también me gustó mucho, me quedé con muchas ganas de leer la segunda parte. Es un relato que a mi parecer es muy verás de la cultura y costumbres iranis, especialmente relatado por una persona nativa que sale del país y tiene una mejor perspectiva para poder narrar de una manera muy amena costumbre y cultura.

I have read it two times and this is very interesting reading.

My daughter was so excited to receive this book. Great story

Ethan klein I would rate the second volume Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi a 4.5 out of 5. This graphic novel was a great book because I loved the pictures Satrapi drew, but some scenes were a little bit inappropriate. Other than that it was an amazing and I would highly recommend it to only mature kids who can take in inappropriate context and young adults. This book kept me up all night reading because it was so good. The second Persepolis book was a memoir about a teenage girl named Marjane who moved to Austria in the 1980s. In the last book Marjane moved from Iran to Austria without her family because there was a war between Iran and Iraq. Marjane moves into a house with her family friends but it was too small so she goes to a catholic boarding house. The boarding house was run by nuns and she did not know anyone there and most of them spoke dutch. Later on in the book because of peer pressure she becomes a drug dealer and later stopped once her punk friends moved away. After that she went into a depression and tried to overdose on drugs and kill herself but she did not die. I don't want to spoil anything else, so if you want to find out what happens next read the book. If you want to read this book I highly suggest you read the first Persepolis book first because it explains her whole childhood and other important concepts and why she moved and why she moved.