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1) Red winter
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Passion and politics unfold against the darkness of winter in 1970s Sweden. In an isolated northern town, Siv, a married mother of three falls in love with a young communist, Ulrik. Though their affair takes place in the shadowy winter, Siv's children witness her affair without comprehending its reality. Anneli Furmark's delicate hues of blue and orange heighten the sublime qualities of the cinematic subarctic landscape and provide the nuanced backdrop...
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking, an adventurous young redhead, moves in next door to Tommy and Annika in a small Swedish village and nothing is the same from there on. She has a horse, a monkey named Mr. Nilsson, and no parents.
4) Goblin girl
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Moa is in crisis. Suffering from increasing panic attacks and depression, she continues to withdraw from everything and everyone around her. In the midst of this, she meets an older man online a public figure who offers his financial and emotional support as a patron of her art. But this seemingly once-in-a lifetime opportunity soon proves to be just as fraught as the rest of her life.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. 'Be thankful', she was told; surely her life in Sweden...
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