Zeina Abirached

Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.

I Remember Beirut

to die, to leave, to return

A game for swallows

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and her little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city, and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safehome. Zeina Abirached, born into a Lebanese Christian family in 1981, has collected her childhood recollections of Beirut in a warm story about the strength of family and community.

To Die, To Leave, To Return

A Game for Swallows

Edward Gauvin

To Die, to Leave, to Return

Game for Swallows

Beirut

Ich erinnere mich

The Oriental Piano/ Le piano oriental

Das Spiel der Schwalben

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safe—home.

Ölmek gitmek dönmek

Kırlangiç Oyunu

A Dança das Andorinhas - Morrer, Partir, Regressar

Prendre refuge

Le récit de la vie de l'inventeur d'un instrument de musique dans le Beyrouth des années 1960 : un piano ayant pour but de rapprocher les traditions musicales d'Orient et d'Occident. Un exemplaire aura vu le jour, avant la guerre civile.

Le piano oriental

Je me souviens

Mathias Énard

Como ya hizo en El piano oriental, Zeina Abirached vuelve a acercar las culturas de Oriente y Occidente en colaboración con Mathias Énard, ganador del Premio Goncourt en 2015. En todas las tradiciones budistas, «tomar refugio» es el primer paso en el camino a la liberación interior. Se trata de un acto de palabra donde se testimonia la confianza en el buda, en el dharma y en el sangha, los tres tesoros. A partir de esta idea, Zeina Abirached y Mathias Énard tejen una entrañable historia sobre la soledad, el amor y la búsqueda de la propia identidad. Tomar refugio se desarrolla en dos líneas temporales y geográficas: en el Afganistán de 1939, la escritora Annemarie Schwarzenbach vive un idilio con una paleontóloga mientras en Europa estalla la Segunda Guerra Mundial; en el Berlín de 2016, un joven alemán colabora en la creación de un campo de refugiados y se enamora de una mujer siria casada, amor que es correspondido, aunque las diferencias culturales parecen separarlos. Dos historias de amor atípicas que resuenan entre sí a pesar de la distancia: tiempos atribulados, seres humanos que al tratar de vencer aquello que los diferencia se enfrentan a la oposición de la sociedad. Las bellas y poéticas imágenes de Zeina Abirached se ponen al servicio de uno de los mejores escritores del momento, especialista en la cultura árabe y siempre comprometido con las libertades en Oriente, dando lugar a una obra artísticamente extraordinaria y políticamente más necesaria que nunca.

Tomar refugio

Piano Oriental

Zīnaẗ Abī Rāšid

Récit pudique d’une enfance dans le Liban des années 1980, Beyrouth Catharsis emprunte les mots et les visions d’une fillette qui a pour terrain de jeu un petit bout de rue, avec ses habitants, ses commerces intriguants... Pour elle, la guerre est cette réalité toute proche et cependant presque invisible, que seuls matérialisent les bruits de coups de feu lui parvenant depuis l’autre coté de la ville, au-delà du mur qui fait de sa rue une impasse et marque la fin de son territoire. Subtile évocation du passage de l’univers familier de l’enfance vers le monde des adultes à travers l’espace de la ville.

Beyrouth

Catharsis

"When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon and bombing in Beirut grows closer, her neighbors create a comfortable world indoors for Zeina and her brother. This expanded edition features a new, illustrated afterword"--

Zeina Abirached

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