
Não é uma questão da má divisão das fronteiras, nem só dos interesses mundiais nos recursos naturais...
Mais na Crimes of War...
"Persepolis" is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power - forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden.
Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
We are inside the mind of Professor Charles Watkins (Classics, Cambridge). He is doomed to spin endlessly on a raft on a tropical shore. He discovers a ruined stone city, participates, moon-dazed, in bloody rituals in the paradisal forest, is caught in the swirling, savage was of the Rat-dogs, is borne on the back of the lordly White Bird across the sea of the dead. Finally, the Crystal claims him, whirling him into space among the singing planets...Mais aqui sobre Doris Lessing...