Four of her peers respond in diverse ways. What does consent really mean? by Pete Wallis and Thalia Wallis, illustrated by Joseph Wilkins ( Singing Dragon, ISBN 978 1 84819 330 7)Ī teenage girl is raped. Moving, sometimes hilarious – and simply brilliant. So is the social context and attitudes towards sexual non-conformity in contemporary Japan. Feelings and states of minds are conveyed with the simplest of lines, shifts of perspective, angle, proportion. Manga artist Gengoroh Tegame’s spare but deftly expressive style, captures the nuances in a stunning and highly imaginative way. Leading him in his painful and difficult education is his sparky and perceptive young daughter, Kana. What follows in this remarkable and delightful graphic novel is the story of how Yiachi has to rethink his assumptions about what makes a family, about sexuality, and about how he treated his late brother. Mike declares that he is the widower of Yiachi’s estranged gay twin brother. My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame ( Blackfriars Books, ISBN 978 7 4)Ĭhunky, hairy and cuddly Canadian, Mike Flanagan turns up at the door of Yiachi, a divorcee who is bringing up his young daughter, Kana. An unusual book and the deserving winner of the Premi Documenta literary award.My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame What does consent really mean? by Pete Wallis and Thalia Wallis, illustrated by Joseph Wilkins a text in which the feats of polar explorers give way to a central autobiographical story about the equally harsh and arid trips through family relationships and within oneself.' El País.'Simultaneously serious and light, incidental and yet trascendental.' El Periódico'A book, part essay and part autobiography, that is also a chronicle of a generation stalled in a world without horizons or certainties. Like the Poles, they are constantly shifting, and inevitably epic.' Agustín Fernández Mallo.'A unconventional look at a world that makes feel uncomfortable. Alicia Kopf's genre-defying book rises as clear and cold as an Arctic sea, floating with ideas that, like icebergs, are buoyed up by meaning and memory below their surface.' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan.'In another country this book would have changed the course of history.' Enrique Vila-Matas.'As if by sleight of hand, Kopf displays a wide range of emotions before us.
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