![]() ![]() “Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. On the first page, the book quotes Chris Marker and defines perfectly the book’s essence. Abirached’s drawing style has a clear resemblance to Satrapi’s work Perspepolis, though I would say is simpler, more restrained, which make the panels particularly intense and transmitting. ![]() As it has been augmented by several authors and reinforced by the art production of its first-person witnesses, there is not one way to describe it, one side to blame for it and, of course, remember and heal the deep wounds it caused. This conflict was different form the others in the region in the second half of the 20th century: there wasn’t two clear sides, but multiple factions divided by religion and political ideology. At that time, the Lebanese Civil War had been going on for six years (1975 – 1990), and it had extremely harsh consequences for a country as small but very pluralistic as Lebanon. This short graphic novel is not an history itself but a compilation of her author, Zeina Abirached’s, childhood memories who was born in Beirut in 1981. I remember Beirut is not what you probably expect of a comic. ![]()
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