– The Boston Globe "Satrapi pushes the boundaries of her work further still. – Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beguiling. Chicken with Plums is the most intricately laminated of her tales: The author shuffles past, present, and future like a cardsharp." Walking on Water When You Feel Like You're Drownin."It's amazing to see how much complexity and narrative cunning Satrapi crams into her images.The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor.Every Day is an Atheist Holiday, by Penn Jillette.Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, by.Andrew's Gift and the Untold Miracles in Bethlehem.
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. 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. Ultimately I was not moved, and not terribly impressed with the stark, minimalist black and white presentation. Satrapi tells the story with sensitivity and humor, but it did not move me like perhaps it should have. As the days pass, Nasser loses more and more of his will to live, while reflecting on some good memories from his life. When he can't find a suitable replacement, he despairs unto death. In a heated argument, his jealous wife destroys his tar. Nasser was a renowned Iranian tar (a Persian stringed instrument, like a lute) player whose music was his life. In Chicken with Plums, she turns from autobiography to biography, telling the story of her great uncle, Nasser Ali Khan.
These stories, based on her childhood in Tehran in the 1970s and 1980s, gained critical acclaim and led to an award-winning film adaptation. Marjane Satrapi gained attention with her autobiographical graphic novels, Persepolis and Persepolis 2.
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