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by Isabelle Pralong

Vertige Graphic

With your job as a wardrobe master, your husband and kids, you live an ordinary and happy life. Until the hospital calls to tell you that your father is in a coma. A father you don't even know, since he has deserted your life from the start. How do you cope with this sudden comeback and impending death? This is what Isabelle Pralong relates in a series of short chapters deprived of pathos and in a graphic style one would describe as expressive. From the initial denial to the reconciliation with the stranger and finally with herself, everything is said with outstanding modesty and soundness in this beautiful book.