The protagonist of one work cherishes a bread swan gifted by her Uncle Anoosh before his execution in this event. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event which leads that protagonist’s parents to send her to school in Austria. A memoir by Azar Nafisi set during this event is titled for “Reading Lolita in” the capital of its central country.
ANSWER: Iranian Revolution of 1979 [or Islamic Revolution; or Enqelāb-e Eslāmī; prompt on 1979 Revolution]
[10e] Marjane Satrapi depicted herself as the protagonist upset by Anoosh’s death in her memoir in this form titled Persepolis. Art Spiegelman depicted Jews as mice and Germans as pigs in his memoir in this medium titled Maus.
ANSWER: graphic novels [or comic books; accept graphic memoirs]
[10h] Anoosh’s death causes Marjane to rethink her desire to be the last one of these people. “Pity the Nation” appears in a sequel titled for “The Garden of” one of these people, who tells 26 fables on subjects like love and beauty in an earlier collection.
ANSWER: prophets [accept The Prophet; accept The Garden of the Prophet] (The prose poetry collection is Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, whose sequel is The Garden of the Prophet.)
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