![]() ![]() The artwork and lettering in this book feels like pretty typical graphic novel style (the artwork is done by Ameziane), leaning heavily on the blacks, grays/tans, and just occasional pops of red that fit the theme. On the front and back endpages of the book, he includes several mementos of the student movement such as scarves painted with slogans, bus tickets, and ID booklets. Thus the story is not quite an autobiography, but it certainly has the immediacy and intensity of one. He writes the story from the perspective of his “fictional twin” who sees and goes through similar but not identical events in the course of these two months in 1989. ![]() The author, Lun Zhang, is one of the students who survived and luckily escaped to France afterwards. ![]() I don’t remember seeing it on the news in 1989 either, but we’ve all seen the iconic picture. But beyond that, I know way too little about this event. A graphic novel retelling of an event that most of our students are probably too young to remember. ![]()
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