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Praise for Chicken with Plums“It’s amazing to see how much complexity and narrative cunning Satrapi crams into her images . . . Chicken with Plums is the most intricately laminated of her tales: The author shuffles past, present, and future like a cardsharp.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Beguiling . . . Completely seamless.”—The Boston Globe“Satrapi pushes the boundaries of her work further still . . . [She is] an Iranian Colette.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Inspired.”—Elle“Satrapi’s deceptively simple, remarkably powerful drawings match the precise but flexible prose she employs in adapting to her multiple roles as educator, folklorist, and grand-niece.”—The New YorkerPraise for Persepolis“A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, Persepolis provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life . . . That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic books makes it unique and totally indispensable.”—Time“It is virtually impossible to read Persepolis without falling in love.” —Baltimore Sun “The most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet.”—People“A mighty achievement.” —USA Today“Wildly charming.”—The New York Times Book Review
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About the Author
Marjane Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran. She now lives in Paris, where she is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers throughout the world, including The New Yorker and The New York Times. She is also the author of several children’s books, the memoir Embroideries, and the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and Persepolis 2. She co-wrote and co-directed the Academy Award-nominated animated film version of Persepolis.
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Product details
Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; Reprint edition (April 14, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375714758
ISBN-13: 978-0375714757
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.4 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
43 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#423,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Marjane Satrapi gained attention with her autobiographical graphic novels, Persepolis and Persepolis 2. These stories, based on her childhood in Tehran in the 1970s and 1980s, gained critical acclaim and led to an award-winning film adaptation. In Chicken with Plums, she turns from autobiography to biography, telling the story of her great uncle, Nasser Ali Khan.Nasser was a renowned Iranian tar (a Persian stringed instrument, like a lute) player whose music was his life. In a heated argument, his jealous wife destroys his tar. When he can't find a suitable replacement, he despairs unto death. As the days pass, Nasser loses more and more of his will to live, while reflecting on some good memories from his life.Satrapi tells the story with sensitivity and humor, but it did not move me like perhaps it should have. Ultimately I was not moved, and not terribly impressed with the stark, minimalist black and white presentation. I was left with the feeling that Chicken with Plums was an admirable labor of love by Satrapi, who wanted to honor the memory of her great uncle. Chicken with Plums is worth a look for Satrapi fans, and for fans of graphic novels, but the general audience, me included, can probably take it or leave it.
compared to this authors other book(s) - Persepolis, This is a little sad, for the subject
That photo is a silly fan art after reading the book 5 times.Simply put, it is a solid book even if you have not known Persepolis or an autofiction.It has positive moments and negative moments like "You came to wrong neighborhood!"Do not think this book as easy to read.
Drawn in bold black and white, Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel illustrates the moving and disturbing life and last days of her uncle, Nasser Ali Kahn. He was a famous Iranian musician, loved for his virtuosity, and the sensitivity with which he played his beloved tar.It's a tale of how a man's happiness was gradually eroded by his culture, loss, suppressed feelings, and unrealizable expectations.The story starts with an older man in black walking down a city street. He encounters a slender woman with her grandchild. He hesitates. Asks if her name is Irane. She doesn't recognize him. Wonders how he knows her name. He, Nasser, apologizes and walks on to a friends business where he hopes to buy a replacement for his recently broken tar.We later learn that the broken tar had special meaning for Nasser. When he was a young man, the parents of the woman he'd fallen in love with forbade her to marry him because he was only a musician. Losing her plunged him into deep depression. He had difficulty playing. Nasser's tar master tried to console him by telling him, "To the common man, whether you're a musician or a clown, it's one and the same. The love you feel for this woman will translate into your music. She will be in every note you play." He then gave Nasser his own tar and instructed him to go on playing.From then on, Nasser's joy was his music. His playing thrilled his audiencesSince childhood he'd been unable to meet the conventional expectations of others. His mother's, his brother's, his teachers', the parents of the woman he loved, his wife, his children.His mother urged him to marry a woman he didn't love so that he would forget his loss. Although the woman he married did love him, she resented his music. His children, influenced by their mother's attitude, became estranged from him. This drove him further and further into his music.After he failed to find another tar equal to his broken one, feeling that without that tar and his music there was nothing else he wanted, Nasser came to the conclusion, "To live, it's not enough to be alive." He decided to die.This where the novel really begins. Through Satrapi's masterful construction, we are able to piece together what we need to understand who Nassar was, and why he would make this tragic choice.Satrapi reveals Nasser's life and character by skillfully rearranging temporal events - picking up a incident, then dropping it, and then weaving it in later on in the story with new threads. She loops the past into the present, the future into the past. Sometimes, from frame to frame, she switches back and forth between the past and the present, showing how a character's unhappy memories and lingering hurt become emotional IEDs on the path to true understanding.There are many lenses through which to "see" another person, many ways in which to know them. At Nassaer's mother's funeral, a mystic tells him the story of five men in the dark trying to describe a whole elephant from the part each has touched. "We give meaning to life based upon our point of view," he tells Nasser. In Chicken With Plums, through characters and events, Satrapi gives us the whole elephant.As the novel progresses, Satrapi's drawings become more expressive and surreal, adding more decorative touches. Her work resembles animation, almost cartoonish, but her story has the depth of a great novel. She has the timing of a film maker, knowing just what to show when, and how to keep the mystery and tension to the end.Chicken With Plums has touched me deeply. It's a heart breaking story of love on many levels, fulfilled and unfulfilled. I believe Nasser died of a broken heart. Without Irane and without his music, he could not find a way to be in this world.
Exquisite. To be savored.
Boring book
I have got a second hand book which looks like new. I have received it in the time frame that I supposed to and I am happy with my purchase.Chicken with Plums
This is more than one remove from Persepolis I and II (which I also loved) but well-told, well-drawn, and moving. Reminding me of Persian miniatures and medieval Persian romance, it tells the story of Nasser Ali Khan, a true musician, his love, and his death. There are also some fascinating asides into the lives of other family members. Having lived two years in Tehran, I loved it because it reminded me of the culture I loved. Ms. Satrapi's work never fails to move and surprise me; more, please!
I must admit to disappointment; I was not expecting a graphic novel (I'm old: translate story in cartoon style). I did love the movie that morphed from this story and since this book was not expensive I am quite content to pass it on to others who may enjoy it more. Either I was unobservant or this was not described as a graphic novel. If the latter, this needs to be remedied. I was expecting some really exquisite description of the characters themselves and a graphic novel simply cannot fill this bill.
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