Story about various Iranian women. They're sit back and relax in the afternoon while sipping a hot cup of tea. But not just that, they all have a tale to tell. And the story begin... "To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart." Huwahahaha...Pertama-tama ketika nge-mark as to read gw pernah komen "Mari ngebordir" , yang dikasi komen sama Lita di message #1 dan saya ngasi komen "wah, rok mini mah cepet keknya ngebordirnya, siap lah" di message #2. Nah, setelah beres memba...

a complementary to Persepolis on the private lives of the women in Satrapi's family.It's a quick and light read and while that captured the mood of having tea with a bunch of women, it squandered a lot of potential as a follow-up. The stories were brutally honest and the narration outstandingly captured the attitudes towards gossip, however, Satrapi could have delved deeper into the cultural traditions around marriages, sex, and virginity within a historical context in the same manner as Persepo...

Family gossip is my Achilles' heel. I live for those moments when my mother and I get to discuss old memories of hers and mine.So this graphic novel fit right like a glove.Embroideries starts out with Marjane Satrapi and her family and friends sitting down with their drinks to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. There was talk of marriage, love, unfeasible men, sex, double standards, body image... simply put, Embroideries included everything I love discussing with my fam...

"To speak behind others' backs is to ventilate the soul." – a dictum from Marjane Satrapi’s grandmother.Reading ‘Embroideries’ from Marjane Satrapi was like reading some missing pages from ‘Persepolis’, her renowned autobiographical series. In ‘Persepolis’ she gave much insights to the reader about the social and political life of Iran during her childhood, but through ‘Embroideries‘ Satrapi manages to illustrate the closed personal world of Iranian women in an amusing manner.In this slice of an...

“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.” A humorous yet eye-opening take on the culture of patriarchy, Embroideries is a comic book about an evening of tea-drinking and gossip among women in Iran in the Satrapi family. The illustrations have women gossiping about lost loves and failed marriages, about faking virginity, plastic surgery and whether it is really important for a woman to actually have a man in her life.The book shows a charming aspect of Iranian culture whe

I am hugely disappointed with this one. It's so weird, sexist and gross that I got literally numb the moment I closed this book.I get the point that women gossip about a lot of things, every tiny details they know about or we think we know of. I get that grandmothers and women talk a lot of weird women stuff. That's not the point of me disliking this book so much. If this one is meant to be humorous and satirical, I get only two percent of it; I find the rest rather insulting, pointless and gend...

Marjane Satrapi lives by converting her family history into graphic novels. Her magnum opus The Complete Persepolis was absolutely mind-blowing, and it was this book which got me hooked to the genre of graphic novels in general. In this book, the mood is not as heavy, but definitely a lot more naughty as Iranian women from three generations, after sending the men off to sleep after dinner, discuss their sexual escapades, misadventures and fantasies. Some are painful, some are weird, and some are...

A nice little companion piece to Marjane Satrapi's wonderful memoir Persepolis. An anthology of sorts, it's a short collection of stories from middle-aged Iranian women discussing their marriages and sex lives. Even from conservative and religious backgrounds, the discussions are very frank. There are some disturbing parts about what life was like in another time (the ages thing), but it's definitely criticized albeit in a whimsical way. The book is a very funny way to tell these stories, with r...

Reading this graphic novel was like being invited to tea with a group of Iranian women, except that the talk turned (interestingly enough) to arranged marriages, cheating husbands, and faking your virginity. The images strengthened the words in such a way that when I was done reading it I actually felt like I knew and had spent a little time with these women.It's interesting, because their conversation makes it seem like they have some power (while living under harsh social restrictions) but as

Hair-raising Iranian gossip. You keep wanting to join in. "Oh wow! What a great story! Now let me tell you about something that happened to a friend of mine..."

This author is great. Her graphic novel Persepolis is remarkable and hilarious, and her notable humor is present here as well. :) I enjoyed it.

If you've read her graphic memoir you would already know that 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. Persepolis provided insights into the social and political life in Iran during the Mohammad-Reza Shah regime and the subsequent Iranian revolution. Embroideries, however, couldn't be a more different take on illustrating her own experiences. Satrapi decided...

4.5 starsI had a wonderful time reading this. Incredibly satirical, thought-provoking and heartbreaking at times. Another success for Satrapi!

My senior year in college I was introduced to a graphic novel memoir by Art Spiegelman entitled Maus. Spiegelman re-told his father’s Holocaust experience in a way that a) indebted me to graphic novels forever and b) made me search out other memoirs told in this unusual format. That search produced another graphic novel entitled Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi told of her experiences growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. I was enamored by her stories and the way her drawings h...

I have always detested gossips but once again, books came to my rescue and proved how wrong this outlook was (because of the binaries I had established). Marjane Satrapi's Embroideries is about those teeny-tiny bits of gossips and discussions which after a long and oppressing day can prove to be an elixir for life. Marjane, or Marji, as her grandmother (I love her so much) called her, is surrounded by her grandmother's friends and acquaintances, who, over a cup of tea (I think it was tea), would...