Synopsis
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.
——摘自本书
About مرژان سطراپى (Marjane
Satrapi)
مرژان سطراپى (Marjane Satrapi) was
born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at
the Lycée Français before leaving for Vienna and then going to
Strasbourg to study illustration. She has written several children’s
books, and her illustrations appear in newspapers and magazines
throughout the world, including The New Yorker and the New York Times.
She currently lives in Paris.
