Alte Zachen: Old Things

This first graphic novel from Cicada follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Bubbe''s relationship with the city is complex - nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and angry at the world around her. Benji, on the other hand, looks at the world, and his grandmother, with clear-eyed acceptance. As they wander the city, we catch glimpses of Bubbe''s childhood in Germany, her young adulthood in 1950s Brooklyn, and her relationships; first with a baker called Gershon, and later with successful Joe, Benji''s grandfather. Gradually we piece together snippets of Bubbe''s life, gaining an insight to some of the things that have formed her cantankerous personality. The journey culminates on the Lower East Side in a moving reunion between Rosa and Gershon, her first love. As the sun sets, Benji and his Bubbe walk home over the Williamsburg Bridge to make dinner. This is a powerful, affecting and deceptively simple story of Jewish identity, of generational divides, of the surmountability of difference and of a restless city and its inhabitants.

Commentaire

'Alte Zachen expands our understanding of the gulf that can exist between generations, particularly those divided by catastrophe. To outsiders, Benji's Bubbe is just a crabby old lady. To the boy, and eventually to us, she becomes a vulnerable figure deserving of great tenderness.' - Wall Street Journal

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ziggy Hanaor, Hanaor Ziggy
• Collaboration: Benjamin Phillips (Illustrations), Phillips Benjamin (Illustrations)
• Edition: Cicada Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 12 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 28.04.2022
• EAN: 9781800660229
• ISBN: 978-1-80066-022-9
• Pages: 72
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 250 mm x 12 mm
• Catégories: Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Livres pour enfants jusqu'à 11 ans; JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Jewish, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 9 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), For National Curriculum Key Stage 3 (England and Wales), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions