Festival Focus 2016: Newcomers

Event 

Title:
Book Brunch: Samira Kentrić - A Letter to Adna (Pismo Adni)
When:
05.03.2016 11.00
Where:
Pritličje - Ljubljana
Category:
Festival Focus 2016: Newcomers

Description

Presentation of a comic by Samira Kentrić: A Letter to Adna. Come to a book-brunch with Samira Kentrić, Vasja Badalič and Aljoša Harlamov.

The author will present her latest work, the comic A Letter to Adna, at 11:00, on March 5, in café Pritličje.

A Letter to Adna is a graphic novel dealing with the alarming situation in the Middle East from which refugees are fleeing to European countries.
The story is told by Adna's late guardian, who had left the girl with a letter that she would receive in the event of her death, and with a few suggestions about what to pay attention to, should Adna decide to flee. The narrative thus consists of two parts: the first part gives us the text of the letter that ends Adna's already less than carefree childhood. And the second part provides instructions that leave no doubt to the double standards and warped perception that Adna would encounter in the countries she's leaving for. Nevertheless, the story concludes with an enduring desire for freedom and fairness that leads Adna to embark on her uncertain journey.

The conversation with Samira Kentrić and Vasja Badalič will be led by Aljoša Harlamov.

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About the book:

Refugees. We don’t want anything to do with them, we don’t like them, we’re afraid of them. They’re different, difficult, ungrateful, uncivilized and dangerous. They should stay where they are or go somewhere else.
A passionate, humane, darkly humorous book about Them that say more about Us.”

 

Zoran Smiljanić

Venue

Venue:
Pritličje