Embroideries

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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…

Additional information

Weight 0.139 kg
Dimensions 1.1 × 14 × 19 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

144

Publisher

Year Published

2008-9-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0224087401

About The Author

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.

This is a book to provoke and entertain

Other text

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

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