Ebook {Epub PDF} Alpha: Abidjan to Paris by Bessora

 · Alpha: Abidjan to Paris by Bessora, Barroux, Sarah Ardizzone. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, ,  · Doctors Without Borders PrizePEN Promotes AwardGLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize ShortlistCILIP Kate Greenaway Medal LonglistLibrary Journal ldquo;Best Book of the Yearrdquo; selectionSchool Library Journal ldquo;Best Brand: Bellevue Literary Press.  · This is a book that describes the desperation and the despair of young men in West Africa. We see stories of the thousands who are stranded in Morocco and Algeria, trying to cross over to Spain and make their way into Europe. Alpha leaves Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, to search for his wife and son who went to Paris/5.

The landscape of graphic novels is as vast as the Sahara. ALPHA follows an African refugee on a tortuous journey across that very desert. The story is by Bessora, a French author of African and European ancestry. French illustrator Barroux's lush ink wash drawings bring an immediacy to the journey. I read Alpha in an hour. JULIA LICHTBLAU reviews ALPHA: ABIDJAN to PARIS African migrants to Europe follow less familiar terrain for American readers. It's worth starting the book by flipping to the map at the back, drawn in Barroux's loose style, thick marker lines over wash, to grasp the distances between the way stations on the migrant's journey. --School Library Journal "Best Adult Book 4 Teens" citationAlpha's wife and son left C te d'Ivoire months ago to join his sister-in-law in Paris, but Alpha has heard nothing from them since. With a visa, Alpha's journey to reunite with his family would take a matter of hours.

Alpha: Abidjan to Paris by Bessora, Barroux (Illustrator), Sarah Ardizzone (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Hardcover. Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan to Paris is a beautifully told and illustrated graphic novel humanizing the urgent migrant crisis. This is a book that describes the desperation and the despair of young men in West Africa. We see stories of the thousands who are stranded in Morocco and Algeria, trying to cross over to Spain and make their way into Europe. Alpha leaves Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, to search for his wife and son who went to Paris.