Unterzakhn

Une BD de Leela Corman - Schocken (Pantheon Graphic Novels) - 2012

Corman, Leela (Scénario) Corman, Leela (Dessin) Corman, Leela (Couleurs)

04/2012 208 pages Autre format
9780805242591 305591

A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York’s Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life’s lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for “Underthings”)... Lire la suite