Lost Girl

Author: Nabiel Kanan
Publisher: NBM Publishing Company

Lost Girl is a slow pace graphic novel, slow as summer vacation in camping near by the sea with your parents and little sister. There are no super-heroes in this novel, just a 15 years old teenage girl, shared between an attraction for the world of adults and her comfortable dream world of childhood. It is difficult to know what is dream and what is reality, but Beth met a mysterious (more…)

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Persepolis : The Story of Childhood

Author: Marjane Satrapi
Publisher: L’Association (FR), Phantheon (US)
Translation Copyright: © 2003 L’Association, Paris, France

In 1979, when the Islamic Revolution started In Iran, Marjane Satrapi was only a child. Through the eyes of this cute little girl, we happen to see the daily life in Iran during this tense period, but also to know more about the history of the first country that refers to sharia in his constitution.

The life is hard and sometimes even tragic for Marjane, (more…)

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