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The Property
Rutu Modan, 232 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $24.95 CAN/US
Love, loss and regret are all parts of life and all central to The Property, the newest graphic novel by Israeli car
for those who have not read an illustrated book before about post WWII and the aftermath of the Holocaust, such a work really adds a whole new dimension to understanding those events. a grandmother and granddaughter from Israel travel to Poland ostensibly to investigate a property matter but really the past left behind while fleeing the Nazis. as you can see from the cover, many local Polish sites are visited and that one is of the cemetery. the story is called the property because the grandmother has rights in an apartment building in Poland. But this apartment building has many other aspects to it including the grandmother’s old love. an excellent story and beautifully drawn and told.