Persepolis by Marjene Satrapi 

Persepolis is an outrageous graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi, she is an intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor. The drawings and strokes seem very simply and are in black and white but they work very well according with the biographic history.

The history begins when she had 10 years old on 1979; during this year a big political change happened, the Islamic Revolution; she lived under an Islamic fundamentalist regime but her parents ha d very progressive ideas and she also had very radical ideas during her childhood, for example she liked to read about Karl Marx, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and become a revolutionist, but on the other hand she was very religious and she wanted to be god’s last and best choice for a prophet.

I think this is a great graphic novel, because in all pages you can find very interesting points of view and contrasting ideas, believes and cultural aspects, it does not matter if she is in Iran or Vienna you can see different ideals and ways to see the world, the novel is very funny and sometimes can be very sad and even nostalgic but it represents very well the encounter of two different cultures like the oriental and occidental in this case.