Parallel
$68.22
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
12 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.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781637151006 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1637151004 |
| Author: | Matthias Lehmann, Ivanka Hahnenberger |
| Publisher: | Oni Press,US |
| Imprint: | Oni Press,US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 12 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
Matthias Lehmann, born in Leipzig in 1983, completed his studies and master’s degree at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He drew the comic Claude Monet (Prestel Verlag), publishes zines, and is regularly featured in the German comic anthology Jazam. In 2018, he was one of the finalists for the Comic Book Prize of the Berthold Leibinger Foundation for Parallel, and in 2019, he received the Ginco Award for the Best Short Comic. He lives in Germany.
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