Modan, well-known in her home country of Israel and rapidly gaining broader recognition, had just released her Eisner Award-winning book “Exit Wounds.” Your email address will not be published. Rutu Modan's graphic novel The Property follows Regina Segal and her granddaughter Mica as they travel to Warsaw, Poland to claim a property that their family owned before World War II.Yet all is not what it seems — Regina's past contains deep secrets, and Mica is dismayed to find that she is being followed.. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Multilinguism is what gives Regina the power to build barriers around Mica, to keep Mica away from knowing her grandmother’s secrets and consequently, her own heritage. She thanks the stranger for maintaining her secret, in English. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2018. I love how the genre of graphic novels has developed over recent years. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It’s a comic scene, yet also establishes just what a stubborn woman Regina is. A relatively fast read, but a good one that weaves secrets, the Shoah, and the delicate strands between generations together in a poignant, often very funny way. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2013. This interplay between the real and its representation is what makes “The Property” so engaging. In turn, disempowering her granddaughter, but Mica is determined to get around those barriers, even if she has to use Hebrew and English to do it. Both Katin and Modan's books are about Jewish women taking trips of discovery to the European countries that either they or a family member fled before or after WW2. She has the clever idea of showing the three languages spoken (Hebrew, Polish and English) in different typefaces - just squiggles when one character can't understand the language being spoken by two others. Mora Strigoi makes a snarky comment in Turkish to Zeynel. If not I wouldn’t have come across it! To Mica this is random strange behaviour, but Regina has spotted a name in the Warsaw telephone directory. What I’d really never seen in a comic before, however, was a list of actors in the back of the book. Rutu Modan's moving tale of a grandmother's long-buried wartime secret is a contender for graphic novel of the year, writes Rachel Cooke Published: 15 Jul 2013 The Property by Rutu Modan – review On the plane, the son of a friend of Regina's ebulliently accosts the women and thereafter seems to show. Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2018. She’s accompanied by her adult granddaughter Mica on a trip to Warsaw, […] That he’s also a comic artist at first comes across as a little too self-aware, but it resonates during a later dramatic scene. Combines history, family secrets, the many ways humans show how noble and grotesque they can be, with a social critique on the commercialization of the Shoah and a fair amount of romance. However, the distribution of information isn’t equal – a character may know something the other doesn’t. My favorite example of Modan playing with the storyline in a way that only comics can is in the frames below. Read "The Property" by Rutu Modan available from Rakuten Kobo. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. . It’s narrative showmanship that I think only works (or is possible) in comics. Curiously, "The Property" is the second graphic novel I've read and reviewed this week. Within two pages and 12 panels, the POV shifts three times (Mica – Regina – Mica) without losing the reader, despite the fact that three languages are being understood here in diegesis (Hebrew, Polish and worms), plus one outside the diegesis (the reader’s language…in this case, English). TV producer Mica Segal accompanies her grandmother, Regina, on the old lady's first return to Warsaw since she fled, pregnant by a gentile with Mica's late father, to Palestine in 1939. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Fiction Featuring Cranky, Eccentric Old Folks, Eisner Award (Best Graphic Album - New, 2014), Ignatz Award nominee (Outstanding Graphic Novel, 2013), (Click to show. I loved both the story and the illustrations, which are stunning in detail and colour. Ben-Gurion Airport, end of October, 200X. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Both books are about how the past can be integrated into the present, and maybe even, the future. Book Review: 'The Property' By Rutu Modan In Israeli artist Rutu Modan's The Property, a young woman accompanies her grandmother to Warsaw to reclaim an … Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Modan’s second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines. I loved this book! Note how this switching of POVs through language creates a sense of Mica being othered, through the principles of group inclusion and exclusion, by her inability to access Polish. Very beautiful artwork too. In prose, using multilinguism as a narrative device may work, but it loses the advantage of having the artwork within the panels to efficiently guide the reader as POVs are switched. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. Similarly, Modan uses visual intrigue when Mica first meets Tomasz, a Polish man with whom she becomes romantically involved: Tomasz becomes a hero when he rescues Mica from her pushy relative, but Modan always draws Tomasz’s face with heavy eyebrows that convey a bit of ambivalence. Much of this is achieved without words. This is the first of many scenes that I would hate to spoil for you: the plot of this book is so powerfully and intricately mapped, I will do my best to leave you as engaged as I was at every page turn.
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