An intensely political graphic novel that takes us on a unique journey through the history of humankind, denouncing its pettiness and celebrating its virtues. Through the past of his ancestors, the creator seeks—sometimes tenderly, sometimes relentlessly—that secret essence which for centuries has saved us from resignation, despair, and mutual destruction. A moving depiction of the light of humanity within the seemingly impenetrable darkness of every era.
The Tower of Babel. The tower of confusion. Human vanity gives birth to monsters. Incomprehensible words, perceptions, ideas, foreign religions. Us and the Others.
What did the fallen men, the builders of that tall tower, have to share, even when they began to speak different languages?
What did the coal miners from all nations, digging deep in the mines of Belgium, have to divide, centuries later?
A young refugee couple, saved from the destruction of Smyrna, walks bewildered in a city of a foreign tongue, Brussels. In 1924, "on the fifth of March," they are still there. A hundred years later, on the same streets, their grandchild searches for something from their faded traces. But his own steps unexpectedly bring him in front of a café. The last Greek café in Molenbeek! And inside, as the deep voice of Kazantzidis plays from the jukebox, a group of old men, former coal miners of every race and language, sit and talk about this fleeting and fragile miracle of existence.
A purebred dog, a stray dog, what could they say about all this?
Political graphic novel
An intensely political graphic novel that takes us on a unique journey through the history of humankind, denouncing its pettiness and celebrating its virtues. Through the past of his ancestors, the creator seeks—sometimes tenderly, sometimes relentlessly—that secret essence which for centuries has saved us from resignation, despair, and mutual destruction. A moving depiction of the light of humanity within the seemingly impenetrable darkness of every era.
Manufacturer
- Authors
- Soloúp, Antonis Nikolopoulos
- Publisher
- Ikaros
- Language
- Greek
- Box Set
- No
- Books Adapted to TV Series / Movies
- No
- Graphic Novel
- Yes
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 248
- Release Date
- 08/12/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- 17x23.7 cm
- Version
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789605728045
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