Abdullah Mamun Mamun من عند Digi, Odisha 762015، الهند
The incomparable Brian K. Vaughan created this amazing parable about freedom that is set in Baghdad just as American troops are invading to overthrow Saddam Hussein. This is based upon the true story of four lions that escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during the fighting and wandered loose in the streets. In this graphic version, the lions roam Baghdad, eventually ending up in Hussein's palace, where they discover a ferocious, gigantic black bear, who taunts them into attacking him. The bear, a metaphor for Hussein, also mocks the lions for believing that they are free and can determine their own fate. During the fight, the bear is ultimately brought down by a stampeding herd of horses. The lions continue to roam Baghdad until American troops discover them and shoot them.
COTN really tunnels deep into the dark places of human nature. 15YO Bobby is a first-class Dublin hooligan--mean, unrepentant, selfish & hard to like. Hoping he'll reform, his mother, who's hardly better, takes him and his little brother Dennis to a quaint cottage in a quiet Irish village away from her creditors and the temptations of mean city streets. Bobby slowly uncovers the murderous history of the house they rent and confronts his own demons which, trust me, come to seem pretty average compared with the dark things he discovers in and about this house and its former inhabitants. I could have done with a bit less of Bobby's delinquency which becomes a little boring, but the last 40 pages of this gripping book and what it has to say about evil in human nature will resonate with me for a long while.
frazier's conclusions were frequently off the mark, but this book is really interesting anyway.