The Egyptians (the author says) perceived the future as being behind them and the past ahead of them, and this is why they buried their kings for eternity.

The second, set at the turn of the 21st century, concerns twenty-year-old Teresa Guerrero, an Italian university student come to Berlin on a grant to work as scientific assistant at the state university’s installation of a Tutankhamen exhibit. The other story has an Italian woman named Teresa getting the opportunity of a lifetime to help an exhibition in Berlin of the Tutankhamen’s treasures in 2001. The muted color palleted and movement lines appropriately engage the written story, and I’d say if this was replaced by a different art style I may not have enjoyed the reading experience as much. Selten habe ich eine so schöne Graphic Novel gelesen - am liebsten würde ich mir jeden zweiten Frame in Postergröße ausdrucken und an die Wand hängen, thank you very much.I usually find that a story would have benefitted from being shorter/more cut down, but this one I think could have benefitted from being longer to allow a little more breathing room for ideas to grow. Given this is really a woman’s journey of self discovery, I found the exploration of Teresa and Ruben’s relationship to be somewhat lacking. It seems to be a rumination on the connection between the past and the future -- the latter symbolized by the 9/11 attack, which ends the book. While much of the story follows the romantic relationship between Teresa and Ruben, I found the relationship a distraction against the story's clear initial structure (much as Ruben is to Teresa's life), but not quite in a way that is complimentary.

Thus the story finds itself a reflection on that which is clear and direct and that which is abstract and perceptual. In 2001, Teresa is fresh off the plane in Berlin, ready to start what is, for her, the opportunity of a lifetime—an assistantship working on an exhibition of the treasures in that tomb. La(e) lectrice (eur) plonge avec elle dans le journal de l’archéologue qui a découvert la tombe de Toutankhamon. Asides from the plot synopsis of the novel, the story itself doesn't mention that it's set in the year 2001 at all. I would recommend this graphic novel for its: thoughtfulness, novel structure, heavy realism toward both romantic relationships and living abroad, and of course for it's well-executed illustrations.

But it really threw me out of the story every time it happened and I sat there trying to remember what a word meant in German. Klar, Themen und Settings sind spannend, aber die Charaktere bleiben in diesem eher kurzen Buch zu flach, um sie wirklich lieben lernen zu können. Le tavole all'interno sono altrettanto belle, quelle che rappresentano le città e, in particolare, quelle della Berlino innevata sono tra le mie preferite.

The advertising mailings are provided within the scope of processing on our behalf by a service provider to whom we pass on your data for this purpose. In places, especially in the wider shots of scenes set in Egypt, the art is like fresh watercolors; elsewhere, it tends to be a bit simpler. Ho scoperto che rispetto ad altri lavori di Fior - che io leggo per la prima volta - questa graphic è leggermente inferiore. If the processing is for other purposes, you have the right to object only if there are reasons arising from your particular situation.Les escenes íntimes de la relació flueixen amb una bellesa i una naturalitat fascinant, cosa que és comú a les obres prèvies de Fior, però potser en aquesta ocasió gaudim de dos personatges que s'obren més l'una a l'altre, malgrat tot allò que volen amagar. Es nota en els personatges, però es nota sobretot en l'arquitectura i els espais berlinesos, que brillen amb llum pròpia sota el prisma de l'autor.

With the graphic novel Cinquemila chilometri al secondo (Coconino press, 2010) he won the Fauve d’Or award at the Angoulême Festival 2011. Wer also Bock hat auf ein bisschen altes Ägypten und alternative Berliner Szene um die Jahrtausendwende, der ist in "Hypericum" bestens aufgehoben.This is a Berlin that doesn't fully exist anymore—where the squatters haven't been evicted, and you can tell the former East and West Berlin by the smell of coal, and war-torn (and Soviet) buildings are still being torn down and rebuilt. Teresa meets Ruben, but he may not offer her the stability she needs as her insomnia frays her fragile mind. Quan va caure a les meves mans Celestia del mateix autor vaig quedar fascinat; fins al punt que vaig comprar-ne dos exemplars —el que vaig llegir l'havia agafat de la biblioteca—, un per mi i un per regalar. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Overall, I would say that I liked this graphic novel but would have preferred a lesser focus on the relationship, and a greater exploration of Teressa's coming-of-age narrative running parallel with the historical ones.