Finding a brand new, as-yet-unpublished-in-the-UK book at the Amnesty book sale for £1.50, looking it up on amazon.co.uk and discovering that the retail price is ten times that. Go me! I am the king of bargain hunting.
So I’ve been reading Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s thoughtful and touching comic book account of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. This edition goes on to cover her life in Austria as a teenager and her return to Tehran before the Gulf War in 1991. It’s well worth reading and quite enlightening about Persian culture and the Islamic state in Iran.