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Book

Papaya salad

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL MACE (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2020.

Physical Description

223 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Summary

"The debut graphic novel from Thai-Italian illustrator Elisa Macellari, Papaya Salad tells the story of her great-uncle Sompong who found himself in Europe on military scholarship on the eve of World War II. A gentle and resolute man in love with books and languages, in search of his place in the world, Sompong chronicles his life during the war and falling for his wife, finding humor and joy even as the world changes irrevocably around him."--

Notes

Translated from the Italian.

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