Our clubs of the Tres con libros project, one of the most consolidated proposals of the Fatima Mernissi library, will be dedicated during the first quarter of 2025 to the fascinating world of comics in all its forms.
The club in person will have the opportunity to read the novelty Love, sex and the promised land (Norma Editorial), a graphic novel in the form of a reportage that looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of interpersonal relationships. The journalist Salomé Parent-Rachdi presents interviews with people who are very diverse in terms of their backgrounds, circumstances and personal stories, translated into visual language by the illustrator Deloupy.
The virtual mode of the club will enjoy Camus, between justice and mother (Norma Editorial), a collaboration between journalist José Lenzini and illustrator Laurent Gnoni. This work celebrates the centenary of the writer's birth with an illustrated biography of him, which reviews his humble beginnings, his relationship with his mother and the fundamental role of literature in his life.
For its part, Tres con libros en movimiento will come to the town of La Algaba to accompany the youngsters in their group review of the reading of Guantánamo Kid (Norma Editorial), a comic scripted by the journalist specialised in war conflicts Jérôme Tubiana and illustrated by the French cartoonist Alexandre Franc.. It tells the personal story of the youngest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay and the eight-year battle to prove his innocence, which began when he was still a minor, and which would mark him for life as an adult.
The Leila Slimani reading club, dedicated to promoting reading after motherhood, will read The Lady of Damascus (Norma Editorial), a collaborative work between contemporary Islam specialist Jean-Pierre Filiu and illustrator Cyrille Pomes. This graphic novel puts a human face on the Syrian conflict by narrating an impossible love story that takes place in a suburb of Damascus shaken by the revolution.
This agenda dedicated to comics aims to familiarise readers with a genre that has been considered minor or aimed solely at a children's audience, relegated to second place in the literary circuits. Diverse, complex and personal stories, transferred to paper in the most attractive way possible, which contribute to achieving a much richer understanding of what is narrated.
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