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Misery of Love

Cover of Misery of Love New York Review Books
Cover price $29.95
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March 17, 2025 529 days ago
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July 29, 2025 395 days ago

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Description

Colonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author’s Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.In Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé continues his interrogation of race and family in modern France.The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is spending time with her family for her grandfather’s funeral. Alagbé shifts between narratives of the family, all haunted by the legacy of France’s colonial subjugation of Africa.Alagbé works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as “a sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life.... I believe that life is not damnation but grace.”This is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France’s best contemporary cartoonists.

Details

Format
Trade Paperback
Language
eng, fre
Order requirement
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Distributor
PenguinRandomHouse
ISBN
9781681379180
Product code
9781681379180