Embroideries

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From the bestselling author of<i>Persepolis</i>comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women.<i>Embroideries</i>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...

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Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the French school, before leaving for Vienna and then Strasbourg to study illustration. She has written several children's books and her commentary and illustrations appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the<i>New Yorker</i>and the<i>New York Times</i>. She is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning graphic novel autobiography in two parts,<i>Persepolis</i>and<i>Persepolis 2,</i>also a major international motion picture. She currently lives in Paris.

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