# Persepolis 2

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- Book: [Persepolis 2](https://www.bookquiver.com/marjane-satrapi/persepolis-2) ([Persepolis 2.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/marjane-satrapi/persepolis-2.md))
- Authors: [Marjane Satrapi](https://www.bookquiver.com/marjane-satrapi)
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN: 978-02-2407-440-7
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2004-08-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis , Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our young, intrepid heroine through the next eight years of her life: an eye-opening and sometimes lonely four years of high school in Vienna, followed by a supremely educational and heartwrenching four years back home in Iran. Just as funny and heartbreaking as its predecessor - with perhaps an even greater sense of the ridiculous inspired by life in a fundamentalist state - Persepolis 2 is also as clear-eyed and searing in its condemnation of fundamentalism and its cost to the human spirit. In its depiction of the universal trials of adolescent life and growing into adulthood - here compounded by being an outsider both abroad and at home, and by living in a state where you have no right to show your hair, wear make-up, run in public, date, or question authority - it's raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.