Bibliograph

Baddawi, Leila Abdelrazaq

Type

Label

Baddawi, Leila Abdelrazaq

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Baddawi

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

905732162

Responsibility statement

Leila Abdelrazaq

Summary

Coming-of-age story about a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty

Target audience

adolescent

Classification