Amazona (Graphic Novel)

Amazona (Graphic Novel)
Canizales
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Paperback
h254 x 178mm - 96pg
3 May 2022 US
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9781728448671
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Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land. This socially conscious thriller from graphic novelist Canizales examines the injustices of his home country in a stark, distinctive style.
Chased from her village in the dead of night by men wearing camo and brandishing guns, Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, and her fellow villagers are passed from one agency to another, ending up in a stuffy two-room apartment in the city, so small and so full of people that her baby dies from a lack of oxygen. Having dreamed of a jaguar that tells her to return to her region of Amazonia and reclaim what is hers, Andrea arrives at the gates of the illegal mining camp that has replaced her village with two goals: to bury her child in sacred land and to photograph enough evidence to prove the land was stolen. Canizales creates a bleak landscape by using a palette of blacks and grays broken only by splashes of red, pink, and orange. His figures look as if they' ve been created using woodcuts, the starkness of the artwork emphasizing the trauma experienced. With characters sympathetic but never pathetic, the story--part thriller, part political drama--will grip readers from page 1. --Booklist-- "Journal" (3/15/2022 12:00:00 AM) To reclaim her village, a young Indigenous Colombian woman returns to confront the violent forces behind an illegal mining operation. Armed men crept into the village during the night, and the villagers fled into the jungle for safety. Displaced from their land, they traveled for miles, seeking refuge from the indifferent local government in Cali, which relocates Andrea and the rest of her community into a single, small, unlivable house. Inside this suffocating 600-square-foot dwelling, Andrea' s baby daughter dies. Andrea undertakes the long voyage from the city of Cali back to the Amazonia region with a small casket in her arms, on a mission to bury her daughter in the land where her village previously stood. She also secretly carries a camera, her tool in gathering photographic evidence in the fight to reclaim her land. Arriving at the wire fence surrounding the destructive mining operation, Andrea contends with two armed guards: One offers little sympathy; the other comes from her distant past. Simply powerful, Colombian artist Canizales' illuminating, expressively rendered graphic novel translated from the Spanish contains moments of great beauty (particularly Andrea' s memories of her husband and father) among numerous scenes of deep anguish, including instances when the threat of sexual assault arises. Stark flashbacks and revealing backstories lead to an overall sense of temporal unsteadiness, creating unease in a way that invites readers to stop and consider. A brutal, vital text. --Kirkus Reviews-- "Journal" (3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
Canizales is a Colombian author and illustrator whose books have been translated into numerous languages. His work has earned several awards including the Cuatrogatos Foundation prize for his picture book Guapa. He lives in Mallorca, Spain. Canizales is a Colombian author and illustrator whose books have been translated into numerous languages. His work has earned several awards including the Cuatrogatos Foundation prize for his picture book Guapa. He lives in Mallorca, Spain.

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