In the wake of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Marjane Satrapi's middle-class parents sent her to boarding school in Vienna. Satrapi returned to Iran in the mid-1980s, as the country continued to fight a bloody war with Iraq. By 1989 she had enrolled in the art program at Iran's state university. View a student's life in post-revolution Iran.
This excerpt comes from the book Persepolis 2, the sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir about growing up in Iran. It appears courtesy of the publisher.
