In 2011, one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel. Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation's Belgian Prize, and translated into English for the first time, Hélène Aldeguer delivers an authentic look at the disillusioned state of young people in Tunisia after the events of the Arab Spring, illustrated in stark, beautiful black-and-white art. Two years after the "Jasmine Revolution," Tunisia is unstable and facing economic hardship. Saif, Aziz, Meriem, and Chayma are among those who feel abandoned by the developing turmoil surrounding the government. Saif goes to college but worries about his younger brother; Aziz works in a call center hoping to gain approval from Meriem's family, while Meriem attends law school; and Chayma, after watching a man set himself on fire, considers emigration to France. As the situation becomes more serious and calls to activism in the streets get louder, each must consider what, or where, their future is.… (más)
Some Tunisian twentysomethings flounder about in their personal lives as their country remains in turmoil a couple years after the revolution of the Arab Spring. The work of a French woman who visited Tunisia for a month, it's one of those unsatisfying stories that doesn't make much sense without reading all the background information provided in the back of the book, which is written in deathly dull prose. At the same time, the amount of political background the author still manages to shove into the main story steals screen time from the characters and my ability to learn much about them. It doesn't help that the art is simplistic and vague, making it a bit difficult to tell people apart.
The end result is just one giant muddle: a snapshot of young folks and a country caught in a moment where everything is up in the air and nothing is really resolved.
"So we had a revolution. What do you want to do tonight?" "I don't know, what you do you want to do?" "I don't know." ( )
In 2011, one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel. Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation's Belgian Prize, and translated into English for the first time, Hélène Aldeguer delivers an authentic look at the disillusioned state of young people in Tunisia after the events of the Arab Spring, illustrated in stark, beautiful black-and-white art. Two years after the "Jasmine Revolution," Tunisia is unstable and facing economic hardship. Saif, Aziz, Meriem, and Chayma are among those who feel abandoned by the developing turmoil surrounding the government. Saif goes to college but worries about his younger brother; Aziz works in a call center hoping to gain approval from Meriem's family, while Meriem attends law school; and Chayma, after watching a man set himself on fire, considers emigration to France. As the situation becomes more serious and calls to activism in the streets get louder, each must consider what, or where, their future is.
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The end result is just one giant muddle: a snapshot of young folks and a country caught in a moment where everything is up in the air and nothing is really resolved.
"So we had a revolution. What do you want to do tonight?"
"I don't know, what you do you want to do?"
"I don't know." (