In her autobiographically influenced comic, Marjane Satrapi tells of growing up during the so-called “Islamic Revolution” in Iran in the late 1970s, the Iran-Iraq War, and her early exile in the diaspora in Vienna.
The book was made into a movie in 2007, the trailer is available here.
Marjane Satrapi 2013: Persepolis. Zurich: Edition Moderne.
If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be found here.