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Embroideries
  • Published: 3 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780224087407
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $42.99

Embroideries

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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.

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...
  • Published: 3 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780224087407
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

Marjane Satrapi

Beloved Iranian and French graphic novelist, film director, and children's book author MARJANE SATRAPI (1969–2026) was born in Rasht, Iran, raised in Tehran, and spent her adulthood in France. Her highly acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis (2004) sold millions of copies and was translated into over 100 languages. Detailing her youth marked by the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and her immigration to Europe, Persepolis was ranked second by the New York Times in a list of best books from the last three decades, and its film adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Satrapi’s other comic strips include Embroideries (2005) and Chicken with Plums (2006), which won the prize for Best Album at the 2004 Angoulême Comics Festival. In the 2024 anthology Woman, Life, Freedom, Satrapi wrote of the Iranian protest movement: “When history guides us, nightmares cease to haunt us. We can see all roads converging to lead us toward a promising dawn.”
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Also by Marjane Satrapi

Woman, Life, Freedom
Chicken With Plums
Persepolis I & II
Persepolis 2
Persepolis
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Praise for Embroideries

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