Books by Zeina Abirached
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review 1: An affecting novel about the Lebanese Civil War, from the point of view of two children waiting for their parents to return home during a severe bombardment. The kids are surrounded by people from their building who quietly care for them during this particularly tense episode. De...
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review 1: This was my first time reading a graphic novel. Since I enjoy reading and analyzing written work more than graphic work, I feel like this book went by too fast for me. The graphics were absolutely beautiful though, and many times kinda funny too. The book is about the experiences...
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review 1: This book is compared to Persepolis a lot, and the artwork is similar, as is the focus on a young narrator in a wartorn environment, but I really felt the scope of the story was too limited. A group of people huddle together one night in Beirut. We get glimpses of their past, and...
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review 1: I found this book short and sweet with creative and well done illustrations. I like how as the book went on more characters were introduced into the story with their own little background story. It's interesting to read about situations that are close to where I live, or in the s...
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review 1: I don’t mind telling you that I picked up A Game for Swallows because I was so taken by the cover. I definitely judge graphic novels by their covers because an enormous part of the reading experience for a graphic novel is the design of the book. How the cover is designed tells m...
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review 1: this book is really well written. the art is very similar to that of Persepolis. when i read this i find that it transitions very well as if i were thinking and seeing it in my mind. this book demonstrates how children of Beirut coped with growing up in the middle of a war they w...
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review 1: The way these memories are weaved make them all the more poignant. For as much as I thought I couldn't relate to a kid's experience of growing up in Beirut in the 80s, I learned that we both remember Flo Jo's nails and the sounds from cassette tapes. I loved that I could go onto ...