Beirut Won't Cry

A diary of the 2006 war in Lebanon told in drawings, comics and prose.

Publisher Marketing: Kerbaj's drawings evoke the soundscape of a Beirut under siege. The emotional, sometimes satirical drawings take the author's anxieties, hopes, drunkenness, anger, playfulness, exhaustion, and hyper-caffeination and transmute them into human and humanesque figures.-- "Bookwitty" Review Quotes : A seminal visual diary of the summer 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon.-- "The Sounder" Review Quotes : Kerbaj's cartoons convey the complex mixture of emotions he experienced during the war. In stark black-and-white drawings, he carries his audience on his journey from despair to anger to apathy and back again--along with brief but happy respites to visit his son and ex-wife in the mountains beyond Beirut.-- "World Literature Today" Review Quotes : Throughout the book, each of Kerbaj's single-panel drawings bristles with angry, anxious, and loud creativity.-- "Qantara" Brief Description : "BANG? BLOG! Thus begins the online diary of Mazen Kerbaj, a Lebanese painter, jazz musician, and cartoonist, as bombs rained down on his hometown of Beirut. Throughout the summer of 2006, during the Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, Kerbaj published drawings, comics, and writing, a creative chronicle during a time of intense and unspeakable brutality. Drawn and written in English, French, and Arabic, Beirut Won't Cry shows us how an artist views the world and everything in it--his relationships, his family, and his creative pursuits--as it crumbles violently around him. Historically vital and occasionally hilarious, Beirut is Mazen Kerbaj's first graphic novel translated into English, introducing to many American readers his unique voice and urgent pen, showing them how to carry on and resist in times of war and oppression."--Page 4 of cover. Publisher Marketing : Beirut Won't Cry shows us how an artist views the world and everything in it -- his relationships, his family, and his creative pursuits -- as it violently crumbles around him. Both historically vital and hilarious, Beirut Won't Cry introduces Mazen Kerbaj's unique voice and urgent pen to an American audience for the very first time, teaching readers how to carry on and resist in times of war and oppression.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 264 | Publication Date: 2017-08-29