Marjane Satrapi Reservoir Books · 2021
Reservoir Books recovers a comic from 2003 from the highly acclaimed author of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi. Yes in Persepolis The Franco-Iranian author recounted in an autobiographical way the Islamic revolution she experienced in the Tehran of her childhood and her adaptation to Europe as an adult., in Embroidery, the Shah of Persia appears as a witness and it is the women around him who speak around a table prepared for the samovar, loose and confident without male presence. Although they are, the men, those who capitalize on the conversation because they are them, the men, those who hold the handle of their lives. Finding the “right” husband is the goal to be able to lead a good life and be respected in society., that's why it's the main topic, from which jokes about marriages of convenience derive, Sex, the role of lover, the uncircumcised foreskins of Westerners and the ordeal of maintaining virginity until marriage. Which has a lot to do with the title of the book., “embroidery”, nothing related to the art of ornamentation, as you would expect. Embroidery It is a black and white meeting of friends who talk to better cope with their sorrows and, without intending it, raise small resistances against the patriarchy that oppresses them. AU
