
This effort came to fruition in an animation movie of the same name in 2007.

Like most great literary works, there was hunger to bring the book to the big screen. Equally remarkable is the intelligence of the young narrator’s unrestrained voice. Marjane recounts the things to which she bears witness: the cruel impact of the war between Iran and Iraq and the success of the Islamic Revolution (Tan).īut what makes the book a great success is its black-and-white comic strip images that send powerful messages, and in spite of the strong themes that the story explores, it manages to be both funny and heartbreaking. Persepolis was originally a series of two books the story is a critically acclaimed Memoir by Marjane Satrapi in which she tells of her growing up in Iran in the days of the Islamic Revolution that saw Shah’s regime overthrown (Tan).
