Embroideries
  • Published: 3 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780224087407
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $36.99

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: $36.99
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About the author

Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including the New Yorker and the New York Times. She is the author of several children's books, as well as the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling memoir Persepolis, which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded the first Fernando Bueso Blanco Peace Prize in Spain. Her other books include Embroideries and Chicken With Plums.

Also by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis
Woman, Life, Freedom
Chicken With Plums
Persepolis I & II
Persepolis 2
See all

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