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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: BARE NECESSITIES. Graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi's latest is the tale of her great-uncle, a famed musician who loses his beloved instrument and his will to live. Writes Noy Thrupkaew:
Plums is Satrapi's most structurally daring narrative, and perhaps her most subtle in its depiction of her hotbed homeland, Iran. In her past three works, Satrapi has made a name for herself by braiding together intimate, memoir-ish narratives with Iranian history. In Plums, a eulogy to the death of pleasure, Satrapi works on both the personal and political scale once again. Her references to Iran are more allusive than in her previous works, but just as haunting.Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
