Chicken with plums Bound

To mark its twentieth anniversary, Poulet aux prunes is the subject of a new hardcover edition, with edges covered in bright yellow marbling. Nasser Ali Khan decided to let himself die. During one of their arguments, his wife broke his tar which he cherishes like the apple of his eye. Deprived of his precious musical instrument, Nasser remains bedridden. It is then that parade Ghosts of the past... Mixing fragments of memories with the present, Marjane Satrapi masterfully superimposes temporalities in order to evoke the loss of taste for the life of the musician – because “to live, it is not enough to be alive” (sic). A melancholic drama brilliantly enhanced by the author's bite and humor. Iranian. After Persepolis and Broderies – published respectively in 2002 and 2003, Marjane Satrapi talks about Iran and her family again. First published once in 2004, Poulet aux prunes received the Best Album Award in Angoulême in 2005 before being adapted for the cinema by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. This book received support from the Île-de-France region.