Persepolis, Volume 4

Persepolis, Volume 3

Et revoilà la petite Marji… À la fin du précédent volume de Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi quittait ses parents et s'envolait pour l'Autriche, loin de la révolution islamique et de ses excès. Au moment où débute ce troisième tome, nous la retrouvo

Chicken with Plums

In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is

Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon

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Persepolis, Volume 2

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-a

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

This "great volume" highlights the "very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, it is "both uproarious and illuminating" (