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Tongues I
25.00 JOD
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‘A genuinely mind-blowing achievement. […] A dazzlingly innovative feat which surprises and delights on every page, across the epic whole and in every strange detail.’ MAX PORTER, author of LANNY’Mindbendingly good. It’s up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan’MARK HADDON, author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME’One utterly gorgeous comic’VULTUREIn the remotest reaches of Central Asia where rival groups war over oil, a minor god is chained to a mountainside. Unfolding in a series of conversations with his unlikely friend the eagle, who visits every day to carry out a gruesome sentence of torture, Tongues I follows the titan’s pursuit of revenge on the god that imprisoned him.Entwined with their story are those of Astrid, a teenage East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a man with a teddy bear strapped to his back wandering aimlessly in the wilderness.Tongues I is a postmodern, apocalyptic reimagining of Prometheus’ story, here a fallible god failing in his duty as the creator and protector of humanity.A visual meditation on our deep evolutionary past and our complicated prospects for the future, Tongues I is both a propulsive story of adventure and an examination of human nature in our present moment.
Additional information
Weight | 0.75 kg |
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Dimensions | 4 × 20.62 × 28.22 cm |
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Format | Hardback |
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Pages | 368 |
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Year Published | 2025-3-27 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1787330656 |
About The Author | Anders Nilsen (he/him) is the author of ten books including Big Questions, The End and Poetry is Useless. Nilsen's work has received three Ignatz awards and Big Questions was listed as a New York Times Notable Book in 2011. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Pitchfork and elsewhere, and his comics have been translated into several languages. |
Review Quote | One of the best comics I have ever read, a tangle of fantastical stories which snake outward through time and space from the seed of the Prometheus myth … Mindbendingly good. It’s up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan |
Other text | A genuinely mind-blowing achievement. I think Tongues is a landmark book not only in the history of the graphic novel, but in the history of mythic storytelling. A dazzlingly innovative feat which surprises and delights on every page, across the epic whole and in every strange detail. My favourite comic by a living artist. |