Mendel's Daughter (2006)
a. Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir
Une BD de Martin Lemelman chez Free Press - 2007
10/2007 240 pages 9781416552215 Autre format 213712
In 1989 Martin Lemelman videotaped his mother, Gusta, as she opened up about her childhood in 1930s Poland and her eventual escape from Nazi persecution. Mendel's Daughter, now in paperback and selected as one of the best books of 2006 by the Austin Chronicle, is Lemelman's loving transcription of his mother's harrowing testimony, bringing her narrative to life with his own powerful black-and-white drawings, interspersed with reproductions of actual photographs, documents and other relics from that era. The result is a wholly original, authentic... Lire la suite