From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbours for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talk. Naturally, the subject turns to loves, sex and vagaries of men...
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224087407
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 139 g
Dimensions: 190 x 140 x 11 mm
This is a book to provoke and entertain - Peter Millar, The Times
Satrapi's drawings are sparing and highly stylised; she is able to render nuances of expression with simple, bold strokes... The stories are wittily told and show a side of life in Iran that is unknown to outsiders - Lydia Adetunji, Financial Times
A daring and brilliantly calculated illumination of a secret space... Though Embroideries is not a continuation of the Persepolis story, it sits at the heart of the same world - a brutally policed society where an extraordinarily rich and inventive culture still prevails, if only behind closed doors, where women are wildly subversive, funny, free-thinking and sexy - Maureen Freely, Guardian
This is Sex and the City, Middle-Eastern style - outrageous, explicit and funny - Kelly Knox, Time Out
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