Name: Pismo Adni
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ISBN: 9789612841706

Letter to Adna

Pismo Adni

Samira Kentrić

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Genre:: Graphic novel
Year of publication:: 2016
Number of pages:: 58
Rights available:: world
Available reading materials:: English sample translation

Adna’s guardian Hasima has left her a letter – to be read in the event of her death…

Letter to Adna is a graphic story of the impossible circumstances in which refugees from the Middle East make their way to countries in the EU. The story is told through the eyes of Adna’s deceased guardian, who left a letter for the little girl to receive in the event of her death. Alongside the letter, there are notes on what to look out for if Adna decides to flee Syria. The narrative thus has two parts: the first part relates to the content of the letter that cuts short Adna’s already short childhood. The second brings instructions that leave no doubt about the double standards and warped perceptions that Adna will encounter in the countries she’s leaving for. Nevertheless, Adna’s desire for freedom and justice eventually sends her on her uncertain way. After all, the yearning for a new life and a second chance is pervasive, timeless, and limitless.

They’re different, difficult, ungrateful, uncivilised and dangerous. They should stay where they are or go somewhere else. A passionate, humane, darkly humorous book about Them that says more about Us.

Mladina

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