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Misery of Love

Misery of Love

by Yvan Alagbé, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith

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In Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé continues his interrogation of race and family in modern France.

The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is spending time with her family for her grandfather’s funeral. Alagbé shifts between narratives of the family, all haunted by the legacy of France’s colonial subjugation of Africa.

Alagbé works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as “a sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life.... I believe that life is not damnation but grace.”

This is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France’s best contemporary cartoonists.

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Series: New York Review Comics
ISBN: 9781681379180
Pages: 232
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