Ondjaki

Gebundenes Buch

Our Beautiful Darkness

A Graphic Novel

Illustrator: Gonçalves, António Jorge / Übersetzer: Miller-Lachmann, Lyn

Beschreibung

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness, in this fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki.

Autor

Ondjaki was born in Luanda, Angola in 1977. His novels, short stories, poetry, and children’s books have received numerous prizes. He received the José Saramago Prize and Littérature-Monde Prize for his novel Transparent City, which was translated into seven languages and included in best-book roundups by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lit Hub, Globe and Mail, World Literature Today, and more. António Jorge Gonçalves is a Portuguese creator of graphic novels and picture books. A long-time political cartoonist for the Portuguese newspaper Público, he has also published in Courrier International and Le Monde. He created a live digital drawing technique with which he has performed onstage with musicians, actors, and dancers worldwide. He received Portugal’s National Illustration Prize for Our Beautiful Darkness . Lyn Miller-Lachmann translates children’s books from Portuguese to English, including award-winning picture book The World in a Second and YA graphic novel Pardalita. She is the author of Torch, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for YA Literature, and co-author (with Zetta Elliott) of the middle grade verse novel Moonwalking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Enchanted Lion Books
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Altersempfehlung: 12 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 146mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781592704101
• ISBN-10: 1592704107
• Artikelnr.: 69073682