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The artwork in black & white made me remember Persepolis. But the story it`s very lacking in informations and events so, in the end, I was quite disappointed.Just ok.
I love reading stories that put the experiences of someone living through a moment of world history into easy to digest and emotional narrative. I Remember Beirut does that, well, but it left me feeling a little lost. It has moments of brilliance such as the kids saying the colour of mom's car, but it also feels lacking. There is an emotional connection to the material but it isn't a deep one. I remember The Wall by Peter Sis doing a much better job of creating that empathy I crave. I'm also not...
A companion to A Game for Swallows, I Remember Beirut is a collection of memories. From one page to the next, Reina takes us through her childhood memoirs of the Lebanese Civil war through a series of “I remember” statements. These memoirs range from things she saw walking to school to the complex emotions of living in a war zone. The illustrations are beautiful, the storytelling is compelling, and new knowledge is learned on every page.Both of these books should be in your library.Told in a ser...
This graphic novel is a memoir of the author's experience and of what she can remember from the time she lived in Beirut. I couldn't really rate a person experience but I can rate the storytelling and deliverance. The art is simple and minimalist that I found it's almost soothing while talking of the heavy topic. Now, I want to try her award winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return!
"In a page of a bookBombs see themselves,Prophetic sayings and ancient wisdom see themselves,Niches see themselves.The threads of carpet wordsGo through memory's needleOver the city's face." - From The Desert (The Diary of Beirut Under Siege) by Adonis"Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars." - Chris Marker (Epigraph of this book.)I read this book while waiting for my copy of the follow-up to The Arab of the Future: A Chil...
Zeina Abirached chose an interesting angle for her memoir of the civil war in Beirut: instead of focusing on the politics or the chronology of the war, she illustrates the impact of the unrest on day-to-day life. From the school bus that won't come to her house, to her mom's bullet-ridden car, to her little brother's shrapnel collection, Abirached remembers it all. And her remembrances are a reminder to the rest of us of just how much most of us take for granted and how much we should be thankfu...
Short random anecdotes about things the author remembers from growing up in Beirut during the war between Christians and Muslims. There's no structure to it, it's all just random asides. I found the art too strange for the subject matter as well.
Wow. I'm not sure what I expected when I picked this up, but it wasn't this. I think maybe I was anticipating a more straightforward memoir, something more like Persepolis. There are some similarities, of course. The visual style Abirached uses is visually rather similar to the one Satrapi uses in Persepolis. In my eyes, that's a compliment. I think Abirached's art is perhaps a little more simple, but that's hardly a bad thing. Both works tell the story of a childhood defined by unrest in their
I read this book as part of the From and About Asia Reading Project.I Remember Beirut is the second graphic memoir by Zeina Abirached I read. It’s shorter, however, it covered a longer time, from her childhood until the Lebanese Civil War was over. It’s half the size of the other book, A Game for Swallows, but I enjoyed it even more and was in tears when I finished reading. Compares to the first graphic memoir, which had a theme run through the whole book, the narration of this book is more like...
A nice, short graphic memoir from a child’s perspective of the Lebanese civil war in Beirut. Striking, yet simple black and white illustrations. A really quick but good read and introduction to a part of Middle Eastern history I don’t know much about.
I immediately picked this up after reading A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return and was just as amazed at Zeina's work in this "sequel". This is a beautifully, simplistic piece about growing up in Beirut during the Civil War. I've noticed many readers have pointed to it being unusual or unique for not being so political. But that's how war works for civilians and especially children. Life goes on, regardless of the violence around you. A child will think and act like a child regardle...
Invisible Cities Project | June 2021 | Selection for Lebanon.Translated from the French by Edward Gauvin.I am fortunate in that I've not lived in a war zone. There's much written about people who do, and this graphic memoir adds to that genre. The blocky black and white art is simple, yet powerfully sets the scene. This isn't a straight forward memoir, but more a collection of anecdotes that highlight one girl's life in the midst of war. It's written for a YA audience, so there's much glossed ov...
