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I Remember Beirut (2014)

by Zeina Abirached(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1467744581 (ISBN13: 9781467744584)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Graphic Universe

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 were born into. though the art isn't very detailed it still was more than enough to keep you interested. i recommend this book to anyone regardless of your interests because it is a very adaptable and well built book.
review 2: As Christians and Muslims fight in the streets of Beirut in the 1980s, families were often caught in the crossfire of the violence. The author/illustrator uses this very personal remembrance of the war to describe not just the dangers but the everyday inconvenienc... morees of the conflict. For instance, families had no running water and the children's school bus wouldn't enter the neighborhood to pick them up. Her mother's car windshield was constantly being broken and replaced, and leaving town meant coping with barely-moving traffic jams. When the family finally ventures forth on an errand to the market, the children are shocked to discover that their street goes much further than they had realized. As their father reminisces about the wonderful foods and shops that once thrived in the bombed out areas, it's clear that the war has been much more than an inconvenience. The stark black and white illustrations allow readers to see the toll that is being taken on those at the heart of the conflict and how her father copes--by playing the music to which he loves to listen as loudly as possible. While outsiders will not understand some of the references in this graphic novel, they will nevertheless be touched by much of what the author remembers, some of it quite mundane. Ah, the things we take for granted! less

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