One Story
Author | : Gipi |
Publisher | : Fantagraphics Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781683963196 |
ISBN-13 | : 1683963199 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), One Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.