Blackbird Days

Manuele Fior

апр 2018. · Fantagraphics Books

O ovoj e-knjizi

In this collection of short literary comics stories, a teacher abandons her students on a class trip, and much more.

Two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlin’s Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold Böcklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece, The Island of Death; and, an immigrant grandmother tells the story of how she escaped war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical snapshot of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Fior’s home. 

O autoru

Manuele Fior was born in Cesena (Italy) in 1975 and currently lives in Venice. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and La Republica. Jamie Richards is an Italian-to-English translator from Southern California currently based in Milan, Italy. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa.