Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi, a young Iranian woman in the 1970s, witnesses the Iranian Revolution of 1979 through the eyes of her idealistic family and the fulfillment of a long-held dream: the overthrow of the detested Shah. The author describes how, as Marji grows older, she sees firsthand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has evolved into an independent repressive dictatorship on its own.
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Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi, a young Iranian woman in the 1970s, witnesses the Iranian Revolution of 1979 through the eyes of her idealistic family and the fulfillment of a long-held dream: the overthrow of the detested Shah. The author describes how, as Marji grows older, she sees firsthand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has evolved into an independent repressive dictatorship on its own.
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