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Beirut in the 1970s is a paradise. Wealthy families ride escalators and fill shopping carts with imported food and luxury products from Paris and New York. Lamia Ziadé, seven years old, dreams of banana splits, American candy, flying on Pan Am Airways and visiting the local cinema. Considered by the elite the 'Paris, Las Vegas or Monaco of the Middle East', Beirut was in reality a powder-keg, waiting for a spark. On 13 April 1975 Lamia and her family returned from lunch in the countryside to find a city in flames.
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It is both a lament for a home transformed by a destructive madness, and an inventory of the concrete objects of her childhood: the objects, details and fragments of memory which combine to capture the impossible reality of war. Part artist's sketchbook, part travel notebook and part family album, Bye Bye Babylon is a unique graphic memoir, and an important addition to the Cape list.
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"Like Marjane Satrapi in Persepolis, Ziadé impresses with her mix of bitter stoicism and bleak humour" (Jennifer Thatcher Art Review)
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"Engaging stuff" (Doug Johnstone The Big Issue)
"Like looking at a scrapbook of someone trying to survive. This book has an odd focus, but it’s worthwhile" (David Agnew The Skinny)
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- EditoreJonathan Cape
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 0224096192
- ISBN 13 9780224096195
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine296
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