| Embroideries Contributor(s): Satrapi, Marjane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375714677 ISBN-13: 9780375714672 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $12.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this book's stories lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and--perfectly captured in Satrapi's simple, beguiling drawings--reveal the connections between women everywhere. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Comics & Graphic Novels | Contemporary Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.52" W x 7.5" (0.40 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Arab World - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one's virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances. Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere--and to teach us all a thing or two. |