The extraordinary part. Book one, Orsay's hands / Ruppert & Mulot ; translator, M.B. Valente.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 152 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 33 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1683966848
- 9781683966845
- Extraordinary part. Book 1
- Orsay's hands
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Graphic Novel | RUPPERT, FLORENT | Available | 33111010965040 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This first book in a two-volume graphic novel series is set in a near-dystopian present, where mysterious creatures called 'whols' coexist with humans since their sudden appearance a few years earlier. At first, they aroused curiosity and wonder, then their seemingly harmless presence became commonplace. Nineteen-year-old Orsay leads an uneventful life in the French countryside, until the day he gains extraordinary powers in his hands after an atypically aggressive encounter with a whol. On a trip to Paris in search of a cure, he meets and falls for Basma, a passionate activist for whols' rights. But Orsay isn't convinced that whols should be granted the same status as humans. Especially once Melek, another human with similar powers, embarks on a murderous rampage to avenge those she sees as her kin.
Originally published as La Part Merveilleuse.
"In a near-dystopian present, where mysterious creatures called 'whols' coexist with humans since their sudden appearance a few years earlier. At first, they aroused curiosity and wonder, then their seemingly harmless presence became commonplace. Nineteen-year-old Orsay leads an uneventful life in the French countryside, until the day he gains extraordinary powers in his hands after an atypically aggressive encounter with a whol, sending him to Paris in search of a cure and thrust into a simmering conflict over whols' rights"-- Back cover.
In English, translated from French.