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Aya: Life in Yop City: Book 1
Marguerite Abouet
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Description for Aya: Life in Yop City: Book 1
Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: FX; YFW. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 154 x 215 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774. Life in Yop City. 382 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations. Cateogry: (J) Children / Juvenile. BIC Classification: FX; YFW. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 28. Weight: 770.
Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It's essential reading. -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's Cat Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles ... Read more
Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It's essential reading. -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's Cat Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
896g
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770460829
SKU
V9781770460829
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About Marguerite Abouet
The writer Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971 and now lives outside of Paris. The artist Cl ment Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966 and has illustrated more than forty children's books.
Reviews for Aya: Life in Yop City: Book 1
Oubrerie's style animates both the broadly funny and painfully grave moments in Abouet's rhythmic slice-of-life storytelling.
The Washington Post Marguerite Abouet's comic tells of a lost age, a time in the late 1970s when the Ivory Coast was basking in the glow of an economic boom, when disco seeped from the open air clubs in ... Read more
The Washington Post Marguerite Abouet's comic tells of a lost age, a time in the late 1970s when the Ivory Coast was basking in the glow of an economic boom, when disco seeped from the open air clubs in ... Read more