Victory Parade
by Leela Corman
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Victory Parade is the story of several women navigating the treacherous personal landscape of wartime in Brooklyn during the Second World War. It's also a tale of refugee trauma, female power and agency, and the US Army's liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Handpainted in Corman's distinctive watercolors, it takes you deep into the subconscious experiences around war, death, and mass trauma.
A short excerpt is available from Tablet.
Another excerpt ran in issue #118 of The Believer.
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Rights Available: translation, audio, film & television.
Leela Corman's previous graphic novel, Unterzakhn (Schocken, Panthon, 2012) has been published in French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
Endorsements
“Corman has an ear for dialogue and a loose, curvilinear brush-line that makes reading her work a pleasure.”
—The Boston Phoenix
Reviews
Praise for Unterzakhn:
“[A] touching look at twins who take distinctly different roads in life, but can't prevent their paths from intersecting . . . Corman’s style, inspired by Russian folk art, has a crudeness that highlights the gritty urban environment, but the fluid line-work of her characters adds a touch of delicacy and grace to the proceedings.”
—NPR.org
“Here is what is magisterial about Unterzakhn: it arrives with the force of artistic conviction, the unholy love child of Love and Rockets and Isaac Bashevis Singer . . . It is a credit to Corman that you will not forget the outcome of these girls’ lives—a story simple and fabulistic, as in the best of Singer, with dark overtones that come from faithless characters in whom we can trust.”
—Edie Meidav, The Millions
“Lures you in with wittiness and sensuality . . . then bites you in the tuchus! Unterzakhn swirls with the energy of Almodóvar and the depth of Dostoyevsky as it follows the fates of two charmingly complicated twin sisters. I loved it.”
—Craig Thompson, author of Habibi
“Corman produces an exceptional portrayal, deserving of much laudatory praise and acclaim, of immigrant and Jewish life on par with the works of Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.”
—SFSite.com
“Historically informed and aesthetically compelling . . . Heavily inked cartoons beautifully depict period details and the Hester Street gossips as times evolve, and show how the two sisters’ similarities change into stark differences in appearance as they age. The text, salted with Yiddish, and the eloquently detailed images meld together to make this a good choice for readers who enjoyed Eleanor Widmer’s Up from Orchard Street or Hubert and Kerascoet’s Miss Don’t Touch Me.”
—Booklist
“Set in New York’s Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, Unterzakhn follows the lives of two sisters, Fanya and Esther . . . Corman gracefully traces both young women’s efforts to maintain control of their bodies in an unpredictable and at times violent world. She steeps her striking black-and-white artwork with period details, particularly in the clothes and the bustling street scenes. In a flashback scene set in Russia, especially, she echoes the swirling evocative style of Russian folk art . . . The story of Fanya and Esther’s struggles is beautifully drawn and hard to forget.”
—Publishers Weekly
Author Biography
Leela Corman, illustrator, cartoonist, and educator, and author/illustrator of We All Wish for Deadly Force (2016) and Unterzakhn, winner of the 2013 Le Prix Millepages, finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and the Eisner Award, and nominated for Le Prix Artemisia.
Her short comics have run in Nautilus Magazine, The Nib, Tablet Magazine, Symbolia, and The Believer. She has created illustrations for the band The Mountain Goats, songwriter Neko Case, and many books and publications.
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Wales Literary Agency, Inc., described as a “... discerning Seattle outfit in search of literary nonfiction and fiction from the Pacific Rim and beyond,” represents approximately 50 clients. Agency clients include Jean Hegland, author of the bestselling novel Into the Forest; nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt, the author of several books including Crow Planet and the forthcoming Rooted (Little, Brown, 2021); Berlin-based disability activist, Kenny Fries; New York Times bestelling author Heather Lende; and sex advice columnist, educator, author and activist, Dan Savage. Subjects of interest for the agency are narrative-driven nonfiction and memoirs— with particular emphasis on science, nature, social justice, politics, health, food writing, and culture— and mainstream and literary fiction, including graphic novels.
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- Publisher/Imprint Knopf Doubleday Group / Schocken/Pantheon
- Publication Date July 2021 - December 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
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