'While this sequel lacks the narrative punch of the first book, it enables Satrapi to reflect on the consequences of revolution.It would have made a stirring document no matter how it was told, but the graphic form, with its cinematic motion and its style as personal as handwriting, endows it with a combination of dynamism and intimacy uniquely suited to a narrative at once intensely subjective and world-historical.' - Luc Sante, the New York Times Book Review 'Satrapi's story is compelling and extremely complex, not simply in its windings and reversals of fortune but in its manifold ironies and acknowledged contradictions.'(I)mplacably witty and fearless (.) Fittingly, Satrapi's style in Volume 2 is more adult, and more assured as well.' - Patricia Storace, The New York Review of Books.

'Satrapi loses her cuddliness in exile in book two (.) But for all of her humility, the simplicity of Satrapi’s work may be what makes it universal: Her cartoon icons represent the conflicted self, the veil of identity politics hiding the lonely navel-gazer within.' - Boris Kachka, New York.

In this way, she teases out universal feelings to draw attention to her country's troubled politics. With a notch of a pen above or below an eye, she can render compassion or fatigue.

'Yet there is a deceptive simplicity to Ms Satrapi's drawings, which capture a range of emotions with an economy of line.

See also our review of volumes 1 and 2 (published in English as Persepolis)ī : decent comic-book version of unusual adolescence.

The English translation is titled: Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, but it is, in fact volumes three and four of the French edition.

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