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  • Category: Books (Comics & Graphic Novels)
  • Author:  Begum, Sayra
  • Author:  Begum, Sayra
  • ISBN-10:  0861662695
  • ISBN-10:  0861662695
  • ISBN-13:  9780861662692
  • ISBN-13:  9780861662692
  • Publisher:  Knockabout
  • Publisher:  Knockabout
  • Pages:  264
  • Pages:  264
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2021
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2021
  • SKU:  0861662695-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  0861662695-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 104414900
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The front door of Shuna’s family home acted as a gateway to Bangladesh. Nothing haram passed through this door, this was a devout house. When Shuna walked through this door, she switched her rebellious face to her pious face, which eagerly absorbed the teaching of the Prophet, striving to be a good Muslim girl. The switching between these two faces became increasingly difficult as they grew further and further apart. ‘Yes, yes, yes I’ll marry you!’ I said to David. Although, after the celestial shock wore off and dull reality set in, I realised there was a slight problem. I would have to tell my very traditional parents that I was going to marry a non-Muslim and confess my secret life. It’s my wedding day. My parents are absent. I’m not surprised. Why would my parents want to celebrate their daughter's eternal damnation in hell fire?
"Told both by the hand and by the heart,Mongrelinvites us behind closed doors and deep into the emotional and spiritual tumult dividing her family. In her exquisite, pertinent debut, Sayra Begum shares her singular, first-person intimacies to enable us all to experience and empathise with the world through a thoroughly modern Muslim's eyes." —Paul Gravett (Author of Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die and Comics Art)
"Mongrelis an impressive and assured debut work from a new voice with a keen understanding of the singular opportunities and intricacies of comics narrative." —Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier 
"These kind of gems only come around every so often. I think ofBlankets, by Craig Thompson, andPersepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, the last great books to take a look at religion in a significant graphic format." —Comics Grinder 
"A magical story and a stunning debut,Mongrelis book you must read alU