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Mothballs - Softcover

Otero, Sole

 
9781683969617: Mothballs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1683969618 ISBN 13: 9781683969617
Verlag: Turnaround Pub. Serv. Ltd, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

New York Public Library Best Comics for Adults 2024

Publishers Weekly Best Comics of 2024

San Martín, Argentina, 2001. Upon her estranged grandmother Vilma's death, 19-year-old Rocío moves into a house haunted by memories. Seeking a deeper understanding, Ro delves into her family history and uncovers the episodes of violence and betrayal that shattered Vilma's dreams. All the while, the familiar scent of mothballs permeating the estate serves to remind Ro of the ineluctable spell of the past that she must break in order to forge her own path in life. Tender, heartrending, and leavened with biting humor, Mothballs is at once a moving family saga and a poignant reflection on the need to hold fast to one's identity, despite how painful it can be. A showcase of tour de force cartooning that marks Sole Otero as a major talent in the global comics scene.

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Sole Otero (b. 1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a comic artist, children's illustrator, and textile designer. She has published the graphic novels Poncho Fue, Intensa, and most recently Naftalina (Mothballs), which won the Fnac-Salamandra Graphic Novel Award in 2019 and the Audience Award from the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2023.

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In this moving family saga, a teenage woman
uncovers the hushed history of sexual violence that
shattered her grandmother’s life.
Buenos Aires, 2001. When Vilma passes away, few friends and
relatives care to attend her funeral. This conspicuous absence
sparks the curiosity of her 19-year-old granddaughter, Rocio, who
moves into the house her grandmother has left her. In this home
haunted by memories, she delves into Vilma’s life and uncovers
a family history shrouded in tragedy.
Moving seamlessly between Italy at the beginning of the
20th century and Argentina at the beginning of the 21st century,
Mothballs draws a poetic comparison between the lives of
grandmother and granddaughter. Both women are strong-willed
and ambitious, eager to forge their own way, but face pressure
from family and society to conform to the paths set for them. At a
crossroads in her own life, knowing well the isolation her grandmother
felt, Rocio seeks to break free from the chain of history.
Mothballs chronicles fraught family dynamics with rare nuance
and sensitivity, sprinkling in moments of tenderness, vulnerability,
and whimsy amidst the pain, a showcase of tour de force cartooning
that marks Sole Otero as a major talent in the global comics scene.

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Verlag
Turnaround Pub. Serv. Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1683969618
ISBN 13 
9781683969617
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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