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Berlin

City of Stones

By Jason Lutes

(19)

| Hardcover | 9781594972249

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Book Description

Set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic, City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters who embody the hopes and struggles of BerlContinue

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Finally a graphic NOVEL

Fantastic book. Lutes clearly takes seriously the "novel" part of "graphic novels", and draws an epic picture of life during the Weimar Republic.
Commoners, aristocrats and bohemien students, they all intertwine their personal struggles within the development of tragedy on a grander, h ... (continue)

Fantastic book. Lutes clearly takes seriously the "novel" part of "graphic novels", and draws an epic picture of life during the Weimar Republic.
Commoners, aristocrats and bohemien students, they all intertwine their personal struggles within the development of tragedy on a grander, historic scale. Lutes makes you feel for the characters, showing you their mistakes and motives, their hopes and fears, and the inevitable manipulation of their actions by higher powers on all sides of History. Victor Hugo would be proud.
You don't need to wait for volume two, as this is a self-contained novel in its own merit. I honestly don't know how Jason Lutes can now top himself, but I'd really like to see him trying.

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