|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
2 Reviews
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Eastern European history in a dazzling nutshell,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Hunting Party (Hardcover)
A group of old men gathers on an estate in Poland for a hunting party. It's the early 1980s...the Warsaw Pact is still in existence, but cracks are starting to appear. The men in the hunting party are highly influential members of each of the various countries' communist parties. A young French communist acts as translator, and he slowly discovers the story of each of these men, how their idealism eroded, how the Soviet Union loomed over them and their countries...It's a fantastic story, outstanding writing by Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal's artwork is just extraordinary. Bilal uses color schemes as symbols, it took me awhile to catch on. See of you can figure out what his use of the colors red and yellow symbolizes. Buy this wonderful, tragic story that ends on a strangely prophetic optimistic note, and get a painless education in how the countries in Eastern Europe after WW2 learned to hate/love the Soviet Union.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing!,
By Bernard Kiriakos "Je lis donc je suis" (San Ramon, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Hunting Party (Hardcover)
I read it 20 times or more: poignant. I am not sure that one can only read this book. It is an immersive experience - more like a 3D movie.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
The Hunting Party by Enki Bilal (Hardcover - September 15, 2002)
Used & New from: $19.99
| |
| ||
