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Highlights
- Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories.
- 96 Pages
- Juvenile Nonfiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
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About the Book
Originally published in French in 2008 by Editions Cambourakis.Book Synopsis
Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories.
Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and on outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk.
With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.
Review Quotes
"[T]he author revisits that era in a loosely connected series of sobering vignettes and impressions, each beginning with the phrase 'I remember'.... In one particularly striking spread, Abirached envisions the family's many relocations as the squares of a board game." --The Horn Book Magazine
-- (11/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)"Abirached's childlike memories altogether compose a deeply personal portrait of Beirut unlike any historical account, and for readers curious about conflict in the region, it will provide a useful, humanizing entry point." --Booklist
-- (10/15/2014 12:00:00 AM)"Abirached's prose and artwork convey, with grace and humor, the way her family's life during the war shifted from mundane to ominous and back again.... Abirached shares (and readers feel) a loss that cannot be named." --Publisher Weekly
-- (9/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)"Taken together, her many memories create a distinct sense of time, place, and emotion. Meandering and experimental but surprisingly evocative." --Kirkus Reviews
-- (8/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)"This spare memoir humanizes families trapped in war zones, and their experiences should resonate with young adult audiences. Highly Recommended."―starred, Library Media Connection
-- (5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)