Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Satrapi, Marjane

ISBN 10: 0375714677 / ISBN 13: 9780375714672

Published by Pantheon, 2006

Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting. Seller Inventory # EVV.0375714677.VG

Synopsis:

From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes a gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women.

"Bold, bewitchingly humorous and politically astute." --Elle

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.

About the Author: MARJANE SATRAPI was 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good