Embroideries -

Marjane Satrapi

Pantheon

2005

134 páginas

4h 28m

ISBN-10: 0375423052

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 importantly, keep up appearances.

Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers and 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.

Resenhas (8)

4 (Muito bom)

O que mais me chamou atenção nesta narrativa foi a total quebra de estereótipos na representação de mulheres iranianas de diversas mentalidades e diferentes histórias de vida. Comecei a ler sem entender o porquê do título, "Bordados" em tradução literal, e fui surpreendida com a metáfora realmente inteligente implícita em tal palavra. Muito bom.