Zahra's paradise (2011)
Zahra's paradise
Une BD de Amir et Khalil chez First Second Books - 2011
09/2011 (16 septembre 2011) 220 pages 9781596436428 Format normal 142830
Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has disappeared in the Islamic Republic’s gulags. Mehdi has vanished in an extrajudicial twilight zone where habeas corpus is suspended. What stops his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of a mother who refuses to surrender her son to fate and the tenacity of a brother—a blogger—who fuses culture and technology to explore and explode absence: the void in which Mehdi... Lire la suite