Pride of Baghdad Hardcover – September 13, 2006 Author: Visit Amazon's Brian K. Vaughan Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Grade 9 Up—A heartbreaking look at what it's like to live in a war zone. Inspired by true events, this story tells of four lions that escape from the Baghdad Zoo during a bombing raid in 2003 and encounter other animals that offer unique perspectives, such as a tortoise that survived World War I. They begin to question the nature of freedom. Can it be achieved without being earned? What is its price? What do the lions owe the zookeepers who took care of them at the cost of keeping them in captivity? Where should they go? What should they eat? The four lions soon realize that a desert city is nothing like the grassy savannas of their memories. Their experiences mirror those of the Iraqi citizens displaced by the conflict. The book succeeds as a graphic novel and as an account of the current crisis. Henrichon's full palette emphasizes browns and grays that evoke the sands of the country, while his long brushstrokes and careful attention to detail reflect the precise and minimalist dialogue that Vaughan uses. An allegorical tale with compelling and believable characters,
Baghdad makes it clear that without self-determination, there can be no freedom—
Erin Dennington, Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax, VACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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"Brian K. Vaughan's PRIDE OF BAGHDAD is easily amongst the finest pieces of comic book literature I have ever read and is also the best comic I have read, and probably will read, all year. Maybe even this decade." Ain't It Cool News "What I would contend, is the best novel, so far, on this most painful and tricky of subjects" The Sunday Telegraph * "The next big thing." - Ain't It Cool News (on Y: The Last Man) * "A seriously funny, nuanced fable... 'A'" - Entertainment Weekly (on Y...) * "Handled with a wit and sophistication that leaves most comics standing" - Time Out (on Y...)"
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- Hardcover: 136 pages
- Publisher: Vertigo; 1st Ed. edition (September 13, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401203140
- ISBN-13: 978-1401203146
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Based on a true story, "Pride of Baghdad" is a very fictionalized account of a group of lions who escape from their zoo during the bombing of Iraq. What's true is that there was/is a war with Iraq, that the zoo was bombed, and that four lions escaped; the rest comes from the pens of writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Niko Hendrichon. To tell the story effective, Vaughan "Disneys" it by giving the animals a voice, but what starts off like another Lion King sequel soon becomes a rather dark and adult story about society and family.
The book begins in the Baghdad zoo where life is easy for Zill, his two wives (Noor and Safa) and his son Ali. Zill and Ali seem content but Noor, feeling a change in the wind, contemplates escape. When the bombs start to fall an opportunity is had and the four make their way out of the zoo and into the streets of Baghdad. The world is theirs for the time being, only the tanks in the street and the planes in the sky surround them. They have finally won their freedom; but what to do with it, where to go and what is there to eat? The four soon realize that a desert city is nothing like a grassy savanna. More challenges soon face them and the questions begged in the end might be, what is freedom, what is the cost of freedom, and can only the naive be truly free?
Written in a simple straight forward style with clean expressive art, the book doesn't try to be too clever or too smart. Vaughan excels at telling compelling simple stories with interesting premises ("Y, The Last Man" and "Ex-Machina") and "Pride" is no exception. It's meant for mature readers as there is a rape scene and some graphic violence. If it where a movie I might give it a PG-13 rating, but I would add that if kids do read this book they should have an adult to discuss it with after.
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