Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed autobiographical series, originally published in French and collected in English by Pantheon, follows her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Through stark, expressive black-and-white art, Satrapi chronicles political upheaval, personal loss, and the search for identity with unflinching honesty. First serialized in two volumes from 2007 onward by Ueberreuter, Persepolis remains a landmark of graphic memoir, celebrated for its intimate, human-scale view of history.