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020 _a9780224087407
082 _a741.5955
_bSAT
100 _aSatrapi, Marjane
245 _aEmbroideries
260 _bJonathan cape
_c2008
_aLondon
300 _a144 p.
_bill.
_c19 cm
365 _b599.00
_cRs
_d00
520 _aThis is a gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane 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. 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.
650 _aWomen sexual behavior
650 _aManners and customs
650 _aSocial life and customs
650 _aComic book
942 _2ddc
_cBK