The art of flying / Antonio Altarriba, Kim ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian West, with a prologue by Stuart Green.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2015. Description: 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780224099370; 022409937XUniform titles: Arte de volar. English. Subject(s): Suicide -- Comic books, strips, etc | Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Comic books, strips, etc | Aragon (Spain) -- Comic books, strips, etcLOC classification: PN6777.A58 | A7813 2015Awards: Winner, English Pen Award. | National Comic Prize, 2010.Summary: "When published in 2009, The Art of Flying was hailed as a landmark in the history of the graphic novel in Spain for its deeply touching synthesis of individual and collective memories. A deeply personal testament, Altarriba's account of what led his father to commit suicide at the age of ninety is a detective novel of sorts, one that traces his father's life from an impoverished childhood in Aragon, to service with Franco's army in the Civil war, escape to join the anarchist FAI, exile in France when the Republicans are defeated, to return to Spain in 1949 and the stultifying existence to which Republican sympathisers were consigned under Francoism ..."--Amazon.com
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Winner, English Pen Award.
National Comic Prize, 2010.
"When published in 2009, The Art of Flying was hailed as a landmark in the history of the graphic novel in Spain for its deeply touching synthesis of individual and collective memories. A deeply personal testament, Altarriba's account of what led his father to commit suicide at the age of ninety is a detective novel of sorts, one that traces his father's life from an impoverished childhood in Aragon, to service with Franco's army in the Civil war, escape to join the anarchist FAI, exile in France when the Republicans are defeated, to return to Spain in 1949 and the stultifying existence to which Republican sympathisers were consigned under Francoism ..."--Amazon.com
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