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The Property - Rutu Modan, Jessica Cohen
The Property
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"Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to vivid and often comical life on the page...[The Property is a] wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel."--NPR"Modan is masterful at creating complex motivations, exploring the confusion her characters create in each other... show more
"Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to vivid and often comical life on the page...[The Property is a] wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel."--NPR"Modan is masterful at creating complex motivations, exploring the confusion her characters create in each other and, more fundamentally, in themselves."--Los Angeles TimesThe award-winning author of Exit Wounds returns with a story about secrets, money, and the bonds of loveThe Property is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight readers and critics alike. Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Rutu Modan’s second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines.      After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren’t a little different than what her grandmother led her to believe.      Modan offers up a world populated by prickly seniors, smart-alecky public servants, and stubborn women—a world whose realism is expressed alternately in the absurdity of people’s behavior and in the complex consequences of their sacrifices. Modan’s ever-present wit is articulated perfectly in her clear-line style, while a subtle, almost muted color palette complements the true-to-life nuances of her characterization. Exit Wounds made a huge splash for this signature combination of wit, style, and realism, and The Property will cement Modan’s status as one of the foremost cartoonists working today.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461154 (1770461159)
ASIN: 1770461159
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
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4.0 The Property by Rutu Modan
This graphic novel was quite an experience. Set in modern day Warsaw Poland, a woman who grew up there before WWII returns with her granddaughter supposedly in search for their property lost during the war. But the granddaughter Mica learns that there is a deeper issue, one which touches her persona...
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5.0 Rutu Modan’s The Property (2013): translated by Jessica Cohen
“I know why you came to Warsaw, Regina. You came to tell me that our son is dead.” This statement, made by an old man to a locked hotel door, is one of the most poignant moments from Ruth Modan’s stunning graphic novel, The Property. I’ll tell you the significance of this statement later, but firs...
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