Recently read: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi
I bought these a couple of years ago when the movie came out, but never actually got around to reading them until this summer’s abortive Green “Revolution”.
Satrapi’s story is fascinating, though it’s pretty obviously representative of a fairly small minority of Iranians, most of whom, I suspect, gave up on Iran long ago (as Satrapi does at the end of the second book, in 1994). Nonetheless, they do seem to provide insight into the dissatisfaction of educated Iranians that briefly boiled over this summer.
