Embroideries | 
|  | | | Title: | Embroideries | | Author: | Marjane Satrapi | | Publisher: | Pantheon | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 18 April, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0375714677 / 9780375714672 | | List Price: | $11.95 | | You Save: | $2.39 | | Amazon Price: | $9.56 | |
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Product Description
From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.
As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one’s virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most important, keep up appearances.
Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere—and to teach us all a thing or two.
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Customer Reviews:
• Embroideries Of Fun Reading 28 March, 2008
my purchase of this book was but an afterthought. i only wanted to avail of the free shipping having ordered the two persepolis books. and i was not disappointed. true enough, it gave me a better understanding and appreciation of iranian women. learning a thing or two in the process. yes, their travails are as universal as the other women's. thank you for the endorsement.
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• Interesting Read, But Not As Gripping As "persepolis" 14 May, 2008
I enjoyed this novel, but felt it was more a snack compared to the meaty content of "Persepolis."
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• Wonderful Humor 04 June, 2008
Embroideries is a wonderfully funny graphic novel detailing the romantic lives of women in Iran. Each woman's story spans just a few pages, but touching, amusing punchlines are delivered every time. The illustrations are lively and gestural, capturing the personalities of Marjane's family and friends. The book is very relatable. It would be a good discussion starter for a book club or a parent broaching the subject of love, romance and courtship to young women.
One of the more amusing stories is told by a woman who, after noticing that her middle aged husband was being distracted from her middle age self by twenty-something women, had plastic surgery that took fat from her behind and used it to perk up her breasts. He loves her new breasts - but in fact is kissing her rear!
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• High Praise For Embroideries 08 May, 2008
Funny, heart breaking, insightful look at women in Iran, but could be women anywhere. The author is very good at getting precise meaning and acute issues across with just the right words. My new favorite author.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A32XGVJNFQGHMG
• If You Are Middle-easterner, You Will Love The Book! 20 April, 2008
I have read this book several times, it is the funniest Marja Satrapi wrote. If you are a female Middle-Easterner, you will laugh out loud at the stories these ladies share.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1KQLFMSUVNDVE
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