Oubrerie Clement - Aya Life In Yop City - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Experience the award - winning series about independent young women growing up in 1970s Ivory Coast Ivory Coast 1978. It's a golden time and the nation too - an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa - seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear - sighted nineteen - year - old Aya her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wryly funny breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. Cl ment Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet's vibrant writing. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in Abouet's Yop City bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoul me International Comics Festival the Children's Africana Book Award and the Glyph Award; was nominated for the Quill Award the YALS a's Great Graphic Novels list and the Eisner Award; and was included on "best of" lists from The Washington Post Booklist Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.
Title: Aya Life In Yop City
Author(s): Oubrerie Clement
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770460829
Pages: 382 Pages, Full-Colour Illustrations
Publication Date: 9/4/2012
Category: Comic Strip Fiction / Graphic Novels (Children's / Teenage)