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Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library) Kindle Edition
by Marjane Satrapi (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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"Tantalizing ... Bold, bewitchingly humorous and politically astute ... A cheeky and knowing peek at the loves, sexual histories and marital secrets of ... these beautiful and seductive women."
--Elle
"Endearing ... A wicked read."
--Los Angeles Times
"Humorous and bawdy ... An amusing portrayal of independent women taking life in stride."
--The Village Voice
"Embroideries is as funny, opinionated, controversial and surprising as any good comic or conversation should be."
--Time.com
"Subversive ... Satrapi's book is a mocking rebuke to the cult of chastity, and a statement about the way human passions find their way around the most determined repression."
--Salon
"By turns bawdy and heartbreaking ... Of all Satrapi's books, Embroideries most effectively tears down the divide between Iranian and American culture, showing how women everywhere are similar."
--The Capital Times (Madison)
About the Author
MARJANE SATRAPIwas born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran, and currently lives in Paris. She has written several children's books and her commentary and comics appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is also the author of the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2.
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ASIN : B0BWLH3KXF
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 21 February 2023
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
File size : 36.5 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 148 pages
Page Flip : Enabled
Genre : Comic
Type : Comics
Best Sellers Rank: 285,553 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)1,110 in Biographies & Memoirs of Women
2,316 in Biographies of Women (Books)
28,906 in Humour & Entertainment (Books)
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Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the French school, before leaving for Vienna and Strasbourg to study decorative arts. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis. She is also the author of several children's books.
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