Name: The House
ISBN: 9781683962632

The House

Paco Roca

Hardcover

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The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca's own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family's vacation home a year after their father's death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But, as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Roca asks what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone.

Book Details

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publish Date: Nov 5th, 2019
Pages: 134
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.10in - 9.50in - 0.70in - 1.25lb
EAN: 9781683962632
Recommended age: 13-17
Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Roca, Paco: - Paco Roca (Francisco Martínez Roca) is a graphic artist and a cartoonist from Valencia, Spain, who has won several art/writing awards. His graphic novel Wrinkles has been adapted into an animated movie.

Rosenberg, Andrea: - Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D'Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

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What people are saying

Danielle Tute

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The 'Surly Goth' that works at @OKComics, runs the OK Comics site and manages the mail order subscriptions. Social media marketer for @AveryHillPubl.

The House by @paco_roca is one of my personal favourite graphic novels. It’s also a part of the @OKComics best of the last 20 years range. A stunning story about family, loss and coming together in the hard times. Now comes with a OK Comics signed print https://t.co/l2LermC5RX https://t.co/EQ4mZEyacL https://t.co/nCAEFYzlss

Dć. Comics, comics and more comics. That's all I ever cared about. And you. I care about you. I love you.

Comics Worldwide: Spain (pt. 12) Paco Roca is one of the main representatives of the new wave of Spanish comic artists, an award-winning author best known for his comic-books Wrinkles, The House, Twists of Fate, The Tresor of Black swan, and Return to Eden. https://t.co/SeqBkC5K0g

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Praise for this book

A moving exploration of family dynamics in the face of loss. Roca's illustrations bring it to a whole other level and make The House the gorgeous piece of art that it is.-- "Book Riot"

Roca examines grief as an overstuffed house that the bereaved must restore, rebuild, and, ultimately, let go in this touching and pensive ensemble cast graphic novel.-- "Publishers Weekly"

A melancholy and deeply sympathetic meditation on sibling dynamics and the role memory plays in the grieving process.-- "Library Journal"

A study of the complex relationships of family and the ties that bind from a storyteller whose powerful depiction of human frailties is both haunting and ever recognisable.-- "Broken Frontier"

What people are saying

Danielle Tute

@DanielleTute

2 years

The 'Surly Goth' that works at @OKComics, runs the OK Comics site and manages the mail order subscriptions. Social media marketer for @AveryHillPubl.

Dć. Comics, comics and more comics. That's all I ever cared about. And you. I care about you. I love you.

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