It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. The artist Clment Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966 and has illustrated more than forty childrens books.Ivory Coast, 1978. Craig Taylor, The Guardian About the Author The writer Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971 and now lives outside of Paris. The Washington Post Marguerite Abouets comic tells of a lost age, a time in the late 1970s when the Ivory Coast was basking in the glow of an economic boom, when disco seeped from the open air clubs in Abidjan and teenage girls such as Aya, Adjoua and Bintou were able to enjoy one last flirtatious summer before adulthood. Review Quotes Oubreries style animates both the broadly funny and painfully grave moments in Abouets rhythmic slice-of-life storytelling. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoulme International Comics Festival, the Childrens Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSAs Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award and was included on best of lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
Drawn and Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in Abouets Yop City, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One.
Clment Oubreries warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouets vibrant writing. Its a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouets youth in Yop City. Its a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbis Cat Ivory Coast, 1978. Book Synopsis Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for bing African.
Originally published in French by Gallimard Jeunesse as part of the Joann Sfar edited Bayou collection.-Title page verso. About the Book Originally published in English in three hardcover editions in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
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