Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbours for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talk. Naturally, the subject turns to loves, sex and vagaries of men...

This is a book to provoke and entertain -- Peter Millar * The Times *
Satrapi's drawings are sparing and highly stylised; she is able to render nuances of expression with simple, bold strokes.. The stories are wittily told and show a side of life in Iran that is unknown to outsiders -- Lydia Adetunji * Financial Times *
A daring and brilliantly calculated illumination of a secret space... Though Embroideries is not a continuation of the Persepolis story, it sits at the heart of the same world - a brutally policed society where an extraordinarily rich and inventive culture still prevails, if only behind closed doors, where women are wildly subversive, funny, free-thinking and sexy -- Maureen Freely * Guardian *
This is Sex and the City, Middle-Eastern style - outrageous, explicit and funny -- Kelly Knox * Time Out *

Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the French school, before leaving for Vienna and then Strasbourg to study illustration. She has written several children's books and her commentary and illustrations appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. She is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning graphic novel autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, also a major international motion picture. She currently lives in Paris.

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ISBN 13	9780224087407
ISBN 10	0224087401
Title	Embroideries
Author	Marjane Satrapi
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-09-04
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.