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The Art of Flying (Hardcover)
Antonio Altarriba; Illustrated by "Kim"; Translated by Adrian West
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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.
The Art of Flying is immensely moving and vivid, beautifully drawn
by Kim. It was highly praised in Spain on first publication, where
it was compared to Art Spiegelman's Maus. It went on to win six
major prizes, including the 2010 National Comic Prize.
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