Chicken with Plums
Chicken with Plums (French: Poulet aux prunes) is a 2004 graphic novel by Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.
Synopsis
Nasser Ali Khan, a relative of Satrapi's and a Tar player, has his cherished instrument broken after a quarrel. The book narrates the last eight days of his life as he lost the will to live, in November 1958 in Tehran.
Publication history
The original French-language version was published in France in 2004 and the English version was translated by Anjali Singh and published by Pantheon Books in 2006 (ISBN 0375424156), followed by a softcover version in 2009 (ISBN 0375714758).
Awards
Chicken with Plums won the Best Album Award (Prix du Meilleur Album) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005.[1][2]
Film adaptation
Satrapi directed a film with the same name based on the comic, which debuted at the La Pate theatre in France on October 26, 2011.
References
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- Persepolis (2000–2003)
- Embroideries (2003)
- Chicken with Plums (2004)
- The Sigh (2004)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Chicken with Plums (2011)
- Gang of the Jotas (2012)
- The Voices (2014)
- Radioactive (2019)
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