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Author:          Marjane Satrapi
Translator:    Natpatcha
Edition:           1 (Sept 08)
Page:               160
Price:               220 Baht

A poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic revolution.

It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power- forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians," and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed, and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran-Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.

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Author:          Marjane Satrapi
Translator:    Natpatcha
Edition:           1 (Sept 08)
Page:               192
Price:               250  Baht

Marjane's parents made the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. n addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism that she fled her country to escape. Over time, she gains acceptance, and she even experiences love, but after high school, she finds herself alone and horribly homesick.

Though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society, Marjane decides to return to Iran to be close to her family. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, all the while continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran.

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Author:        10decibel        
Editions:      1 (October 08)
Pages:          192
Price:            155 Baht