New Releases by Marjane Satrapi

The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging. Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran. As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up—here compounded by Marjane’s status as an outsider both abroad and at home—it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

From the author of the acclaimed comic-strip autobiography Persepolis comes this comic book for grown-ups, a gloriously entertaining and revealing look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together many of the women in Marjane Satrapi''s life - her beloved grandmother, her mother, an eccentric aunt, their friends and neighbours - for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talking. And as is only to be expected when a group of women reunite around cups of tea, the subjects turn to love, sex and the vagaries of men - in this case, Iranian men. As the afternoon progresses, these colourful women share their secrets about, among other things: how to fake your virginity, how to escape the husband your family has chosen for you, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to take advantage of being someone''s mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, to keep a man, or just to keep up appearances. We also witness tearful confessions and heavy-hearted tales of regret and betrayal, of unhappy marriages and of young women forced or choosing to marry for all the wrong reasons. of their suffering is due to a culture that prizes men above women and makes a woman''s worth dependent on her virginity. Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some very interesting ordinary women also demonstrates brilliantly how much women the world over have in common.

Una tarda qualsevol, mentre els homes fan la migdiada, les dones es reuneixen a la saleta i fan un te. I mentre beuen, airegen el cor. Mica en mica, cadascuna d ́elles explica una experiència vital que les ha marcat per sempre més: matrimonis concertats, infidelitats que els han canviat el futur... i el més important de tot, haver de mantenir la virginitat fins al matrimoni, una cosa que, en els temps moderns, de vegades no sempre és possible. Brodats és un dur retrat sobre la situació de la dona a l ́Orient Mitjà i sobre la millor manera de sobreviure-hi. Marjane Satrapi es va donar a conèixer a tot el món amb la novel·la gràfica Persèpolis, una sèrie de quatre àlbums de tints autobiogràfics, ambientada al període de la guerra d ́Iran i Iraq, amb la qual va aconseguir els millors premis de la indústria.

Nasser Ali Khan est un grand joueur de tar. Le jour où on lui casse son instrument et qu''il ne parvient pas à en trouver un d''une aussi belle sonorité, il sombre dans une torpeur et se laisse mourir. Le récit émouvant du lent passage et des souvenirs d''un homme vers la mort. Le dessin dénudé va droit à l''essentiel. [SDM].

Voici des histoires extraites du Masnavi que Rûmi, le grand poète persan soufi, dicta à ses disciples il y a plus de sept cents ans. Aujourd''hui encore, son enseignement nous touche au plus profond de notre qualité humaine. Perroquets, souris, ours et lions animent ces plaisantes paraboles qui croquent avec humour nos joies, nos efforts, nos ruses ou nos orgueils. A savourer malicieusement pour grandir en sagesse.