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A game for swallows : to die, to leave, to return / Zeina Abirached ; art by Zeina Abirached ; translation by Edward Gauvin.
Van Pelt Library PN6790.L43 A2513 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abirached, Zeina, 1981- author, artist.
- Standardized Title:
- Jeu des hirondelles. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Abirached, Zeina, 1981-.
- History.
- Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Lebanon.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- Lebanon--Beirut.
- Abirached, Zeina, 1981---Comic books, strips, etc.
- Abirached, Zeina.
- Civil war.
- Christians.
- Muslims.
- Families.
- Local Subjects:
- Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical comics.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels.
- History.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 2012.
- Autobiographies -- 2012.
- Graphic novels -- Juvenile.
- Graphic novels -- Young adult.
- Young adult nonfiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Graphic Universe, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Lebanese.
- Summary:
- Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city.
- Notes:
- Batchelder Honor Book.
- Translation of: Le jeau des hirondelles.
- Batchelder Honor Book, 2013
- Middle East Book Award Honorable Mention, Youth Literature, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780761385684
- 0761385681
- 9781575059419
- 157505941X
- OCLC:
- 754908714
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