Parallel
$68.22
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2023
Summary
A 2023 GLAAD Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Original Graphic Novel A 2023 ALA Best Graphic Novel for Adults
In Parallel, creator Matthias Lehmann deftly explores the complexities of being gay at a time when queer relationships were forbidden. Torn between his longing for a family and his simultaneous desire for gay love, Karl Kling hides his homosexuality from his wife and child while pursuing male romances in 1950s Germany.
Karl Kling’s story is one of revelatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781637151006 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1637151004 |
| Author: | Matthias Lehmann, Ivanka Hahnenberger |
| Publisher: | Oni Press,US |
| Imprint: | Oni Press,US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 992g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Parallel |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
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Critics Review
“A moving portrait of a man at odds with society’s harsh punishment of those it refuses to understand.” * —Booklist *
‘A somber, compassionate remembrance of life in the closet.”
* —Kirkus Reviews *
“The frequent deep cool grays and blacks show the loneliness and alienation of Karl as he tries to develop a way to live his life.” – Virginia Library Association
Matthias Lehmann
Born in 1983 in Dresden, Matthias Lehmann studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. He was the illustrator of Claude Monet for Prestel Verlag, published zines, and appeared regularly in the Jazam comic anthology. Parallel was among the finalists for the 2018 Comic Book Prize from the Berthold Leibinger Foundation, and in 2019 he won a Ginco Award for Best Short Comic.
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