"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 Book order
Zeina Abirached's graphic novels are characterized by a distinctive black and white style. Her largely autobiographical works powerfully convey personal experiences during the Lebanese Civil War of the 1980s. Through a strong visual language, Abirached explores themes of memory, identity, and the impact of conflict on human lives. Her work offers a compelling insight into history and human resilience.
- 2022
- 2014
I Remember Beirut
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
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.
- 2012
A Game For Swallows
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.