- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Original edition (Nov 10 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312532865
- ISBN-13: 978-0312532864
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #314,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Advance Praise for Nylon Road:
“NYLON ROAD is an engaging and entertaining journey into Islamic Iranian culture through the eyes of young professional woman. It is a window into the transformation of Iran from a pro-western country into the abyss of Islamic totalitarianism. The writer brilliantly takes you into her life and shows you how that affected her life and makes the case for the importance of democracy and freedom.” - Brigitte Gabriel, New York Times Bestselling author of They Must Be Stopped
"Parsua Bashi is one of those compelling voices who rarely get heard in the mass media, but who can sing her poignant song loud and clear through the intimate medium of the graphic novel."
- Paul Gravett, author of Holy Sh*t! and the bestselling author Manga
“Parsua Bashi weaves personal experience with Iranian history and, without comingProduct Description
In the tradition of graphic memoirs such as Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, comes the story of a young Iranian woman’s struggles with growing up under Shiite Law, her journey into adulthood, and the daughter whom she had to leave behind when she left Iran. NYLON ROAD is a window into the soul of a culture that we are still struggling to understand. Beautifully told, poignant, this is a powerful work about the necessity of freedom.
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Thoughtful and perceptive, Nov 26 2009
By Robert Elgie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran (Paperback)
The gold standard of graphic memoirs for me is Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Measured against that book, Parsua Bashi's Nylon Road comes out a good, solid, sterling silver.A more obvious comparison would be with Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, but that's one I can't really make since I put Persepolis down part way through. Satrapi's drawing style was one of the chief reasons for that: I found it blocky and unattractive. Bashi's fluid and varied panels are more to my taste.
In her examination of coming of age in Iran, Bashi succeeds well in conveying the conflicting loyalties that have made the move from her childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran and her adolescence in the Khomeini era through to her adulthood in the West so challenging. On the whole, few of her experiences are ones we would want to share.
The migration story is the immediate focus of Bashi's book. But the glass through which we view a Muslim Iranian woman's journey to greater personal freedom becomes also a mirror in which we are encouraged to take a hard, appraising look at our own culture. It's easy, as we see the daily news clips from the Middle East and Muslim Asia, to become a bit smug about our freedom of expression, our comparative progress at gender equality, our relative openness to multiculturalism, and the stability of our civil societies. These achievements, however, have come at some cost. For me, the real reason to take a good look at Nylon Road is Bashi's invitation to do some serious self-examination of our own.
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honest, beautiful, unique..., Nov 13 2009
By Brainquake "GB" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran (Paperback)
Anyone interested in graphic novels (like Persepolis), comic strips (TinTin or Astrix), the ban dessinée genre (Art Spiegelman's Mouse) and the country Iran is going to enjoy Parsua Bashi's exquisitely illustrated "Nylon Road." Bashi is brutally honest about her life as a young woman in Iran (she comes from a political family), her adolescence, her marriage, her divorce and a bitter custody battle in which she loses her only child, a daughter to her ex-husband (due to Iran's unfair patriarchal legal system). Her story is rich, funny, tragic and entertaining, all at once...Her story also deals with pre and post-revolutionary Iranian history and Bashi's struggle to adapt to life in Switzerland as an exiled Iranian--
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