Chicken With Plums
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224080453 (0224080458)
Publish date: October 12th 2006
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Iran,
Bande Dessinée
I was looking for 'Persepolis' by the same author, but as it was not available, I picked this one up instead. I found the title quaint, and it turns out that it is a name of an Iranian dish. It has a shadowing of moroseness (the central character's), but it is balanced out by the telling and drawing...
When I came back to the library to look for Persepolis 2, I couldn't find it any more, but I stumbled on another graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi: Chicken with Plums.This is the story of Satrapi's great-uncle Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most famous musicians, who takes to bed after realizing that...
Great art but the story simply wasn't for me.
The movie, possibly due to the addition of music, is even more amazing imo.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/05/graphic-novel-monday-chicken-with-plums.html
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