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The Photographer
Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Le Photographe
by Emmanuel Guibert
Translated by Mark Siegel
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In 1986, French photojournalist Didier Lefèvre accompanied a team of Doctors Without Borders (DWB) traveling to Afghanistan during the war with the Soviet Union. It was his first assignment. His striking landscape photography documents their journey from Peshawar, Pakistan across the Hindu Kush mountains with a caravan of 120 donkeys, 20 horses and 40 armed guards. A donkey fell through the ice and was rescued; one unlucky horse groom was lost during a night crossing. When they reached their destination in northern Afghanistan's Yaftal valley, DWB set up a clinic on a windswept porch with a courtyard that served as an ICU and a nearby mosque as a recovery room. The first patient was a young boy who burned his foot in a bread oven--a common injury in Afghanistan. |
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First English Language Edition
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Dupuis
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First Second
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2009
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288
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29.95 $
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1596433752
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| The best-selling author of "Epileptic" and one of Europe’s leading new generation comics artists invites us to experience nineteen explorative and most imaginative dreams he has experienced. Strange, scary, beautiful, funny and with a sense all their own, these are tales of the inner psyche. |
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Nocturnal Conspiracies
Nineteen Dreams
Les complots nocturnes
Dix-neuf rêves
by David B. &
Translated by E. Joe Johnson
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First English Language Edition
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Futuropolis
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Comicslit
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2008
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10.17 $
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978-1561635412
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Aya of Yop City
Aya de Yopougon
by Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie
Translated by Dag Dascher
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Abouet and Oubrerie's sequel to their 2007 graphic novel Aya is a charming comedy of manners about a group of young women—a sort of Jane Austen scenario transplanted to the Ivory Coast of the late '70s. Aya's friend Adjoua has a new baby, and everybody's pitching in to help take care of him, although he looks rather less like the purported father than like an irresponsible bounder by the name of Mamadou. Meanwhile, their starry-eyed friend, Bintou, is plunging into a new romance with a man whose urbane extravagance blinds her to his sneakiness. Mostly, though, this volume is about the cheerful, communitarian spirit of the place and time it sketches out—a moment of postcolonial African history when people didn't have a lot of resources (Adjoua is entering a beauty contest in the hopes of winning cooking oil for the fritters she sells), but had high hopes for the future. Oubrerie's scrappy, witty pen-and-ink artwork is a small delight: everybody's got exaggerated but subtly expressive body language and facial expressions, and the story's dashed-off but dead-on settings—with traffic blocked by wandering sheep and tin roofs near ambitious office buildings—make its tone of historical transition between tradition and modernization even more vivid. |
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First English Language Edition
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Gallimard Jeunesse
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Drawn & Quarterly
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2006
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112
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13.57 $
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978-1897299418
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| This series of wordless portraits of men is slightly disturbing, especially in its attitude toward women's bodies, but one imagines that's the point. Smiling, mindless women are chopped up by magicians and pulled out in pre-disassembled pieces by psychiatrists. One is tied to train tracks, run over and sewn back together by a cowboy. It's definitely creepy commentary when a naked middle-aged fisherman reels in a naked woman, carefully measures her, then throws her back. But the book feels more like an artistic statement than a narrative, and it's not art for art's sake so much as art as a hammer to whack you with. At its best, it makes one giggle and wince at the same time. At its worst, it's upsetting. The art feels quirky with its frumpy little grayscale men (some pages are toned sepia and others are blue). While not a masterpiece like Delisle's autobiographical comics Pyongyang or Shenzhen, it's worth reading. Much the way he captured the sense of danger in the Communist blandness of North Korea, Delisle's portraits capture something of the sinister blankness of the Western workingman. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Albert and the Others
Albert et les autres
by Guy Delisle &
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First English Language Edition
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L'Association
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Drawn & Quarterly
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2008
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72
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9
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978-1897299272
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Blue Pills
A Positive Love Story
Pilules Bleues
by Frederik Peeters
Translated by Anjali Singh
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From one of Europes most acclaimed young comics artists, a deeply personal story that will resonate with all of us who have chosen to love in the face of great challenges. One summer night at a house party, Fred met Cati. Though they barely spoke, he vividly remembered her gracefulness and abandon. They meet again years later, and this time their connection is instantaneous. But when things become serious, a nervous Cati tells him that she and her three-year-old son are both HIV positive. With great beauty and economy, Peeters traces the development of their intimacy and their revelatory relationship with a doctor whose affection and frankness allow them to fully realize their passionate connection. Then Catis son gets sick, bringing Fred face to face with death. It forces him to question the meaning of life, illness, and love -- until a Socratic dialogue with a mammoth helps him recognize that living with illness is also a gift; it has freed him to savor his life with Cati. As in the best graphic memoirs, Blue Pills puts into art and human terms a daunting subject in a way that is refreshingly honest and profoundly accessible. A brave and unsentimental romance, Blue Pills will resonate with anyone whose love has faced great obstacles and triumphed. |
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First English Language Edition
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French Publisher :
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Atrabile
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American Publisher :
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Houghton Mifflin Company
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2008
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Number of Pages :
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192
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18.95 $
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978-0618820993
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