Persepolis Biography

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Persepolis is the autobiographical story of Iranian Marjane Satrapi, the story of how he grew up in a fundamentalist Islamic regime that would eventually lead to leave their country. The comic starts from 1979, when Marjane is ten years old and since his childhood perspective is witnessing a social and political change that ends more than fifty years of reign of the Shah of Persia in Iran and gives way to an Islamic republic .
In addition to differentiate themselves from other children for being educated Western-style in a high class family and parents of progressive ideology and secularists, "Marji" (as the know at the beginning of the story) also has considerable intellectual concern for a girl her age and remarkable imagination that leads

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