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2014 Astiberri. About the work:Joshua and Emmanuel meet in a prison for probation; one is a former ET member, while the other is a former GAL member. Anton, Joshua's childhood friend, lives almost a thousand kilometers away; ETA killed his father twenty-five years before, and he still lives in the shadow of that death. Javier de Isusi, the author of the comic series Los viajes de Juan Sin Tierra, proposes an exciting graphic novel based on a real event. the protagonists are three people who have happened to walk opposite paths, and yet they want to meet together, to meet as people. About the author: He is an architect by training, but a comic book author by vocation and profession. His works have been translated into French, Basque, Finnish, Portuguese, German, and Polish. He debuts with the graphic novel series Los Viajes de Juan Sin Tierra (2004-2011), a series inspired by his own trips to Latin America and which has been the subject of university theses in Italy and the United Kingdom. In 2012 he published the comic Ometepe and illustrated Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. In 2014 he immersed himself in the Basque conflict with I've seen whales and in 2015 he made a graphic novel for CEAR-Euskadi Asylum that addresses the issue of refugees from different points of view. In 2019 he established himself with The Divine Comedy of Oscar Wilde, a work with which he won the 2020 National Comic Award. In 2020 he made Transparentes, stories of the Colombian exile for the Colombian Truth Commission, and won the Euskadi Literature Prize with it. 2021 in the Illustration mode. In 2021, the essay Decolonize the Adventure is published – a work by Italian professor Claudio Maringelli whose object of study is The Travels of Juan Sin Tierra – and The Sea Will Remember Our Names, a graphic novel created for the Ministry of Innovation and Science and the CSIC about the expedition of the 1803 vaccine, which also represents his first collaboration with Planeta. The book is almost like new. Minor scuffing and cover wear. No annotations. Collectible. Very rare.
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