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Le Nao De Brown (2012)

by Glyn Dillon(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Talence : Akileos

review 1: I REALLY enjoyed this graphic novel, and it's so nice to not have had my expectations disappointed! I really related to Nao in this story, I felt a real connection and sympathy for her that just made me hope for her resolution. The art in this graphic novel is WONDERFUL. It's so special. It is quite sketchy but also quite realistic in that it is honest and believable. The characters in this story just breathe life off the page to you because they are drawn so elegantly and truthfully, it didn't feel like I was looking at pictures at all- which is something that I have (in my previous experience of reading graphic novels) always been conscious of. The story was great to read, it was very interesting and easy to follow. Another issue I normally have with graphic novels is fi... morending that the story jumps around a bit, especially if panels aren't connected well enough. But this was just so much of an easy read that page-turning just became second nature. I read it in a single sitting! (Rarely ever happens)While I don't FULLY understand the resolution or ending of the story as this entire novel is quite symbolic and I'd have to go back over the sub-narrative again to realllllly get it, I will definitely be re reading this again and again whenever I'm feeling a bit hopeless. I'm so happy to own such a beautiful thing! Would gladly check out ANY other of Dillon's work. This book is an achievement (and I'm kind of jealous I didn't write it myself!)
review 2: Dillon's "The Nao of Brown" is a vividly illustrated story centred around a neurotic, emotionally disturbed Nao, of a unique half Japanese, half English descent. Beyond the resulting condescension she receives of her "exoticism", Nao continues to seek for that "perfect love" in London, and come to terms with her mental state -- her life is constantly disrupted by the violent nature of her intrusive thoughts and her obsession with them. This book offers a convoluted and disturbing but refreshingly new point of view on the nature of struggling to live a perfect (or at least normal) life amidst the complexity of the human mind that is capable of tormenting us, even in the most everyday setting. This unexpected nature of Nao's thoughts among her ostensibly mundane daily routine becomes reflected in the jarringly beautiful surrealist reliefs in illustration that occasionally surface and take the readers' breath away.I read this last year on a school trip to the beautiful and romantic city of London, and on the night that I bought it on impulse under the "Best Graphic Novels" section of Waterstone's. It made me stay up a little later than I should, but it contributed so much to making the trip memorable. Only downside was the resolution that seemed a little too rushed and happy and ambiguous for anything to sink inside my head before the book ended -- but I appreciate the ambiguity of such emotionally convoluted stories that leave things mostly to the reader's interpretation, and for their satisfaction to personally resolve. It will leave you thinking for a while after you're done reading. less

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