Chicken with plums
| Chicken with plums | ||||
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| Original title | Chicken aux prunes | |||
| genre | drama | |||
| Comic | ||||
| author | Marjane Satrapi | |||
| publishing company | L'Association | |||
| First publication | 2004 | |||
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Chicken with plums ( French: Poulet aux prunes ) is a graphic novel by the Iranian illustrator Marjane Satrapi . It deals with the life and death of Satrapi's great-uncle Nasser Ali, an important Tar musician of his time, in Tehran in 1958 . The comic was made into a film with the help of Marjane Satrapi and was released in 2011 as a chicken with plums .
action
During an argument, Nasser Ali's wife Nahid breaks his precious tar. Since he lives almost exclusively for music, he is dismayed and desperate. Nasser Ali is looking for a new instrument that can replace his old one at a dealer friend of his and even in far away Mashhad . However, since he cannot find a tar that meets his requirements despite all his efforts, he decides to die. Since he doesn't like all suicide methods, he just wants to stay in bed and wait for death instead.
During this time he remembers experiences with his children and in his own youth. He thinks of his late mother, how he learned to play the tars and, as a young man, courted the beautiful Iranian. Since he was a musician, the relationship was not allowed by her father. But through the pain of this desperate love, Nasser Ali was able to perfect his tar game and became famous. Eventually he married Nahid, who had loved him since childhood but who was not loved by him.
Meanwhile, Nasser tried Ali's wife - when she noticed his rejection of everything and everyone - to help him. But neither his brother nor his favorite dish “Chicken with Plums” can get Nasser Ali to abandon his plan. On the sixth day, Nasser Ali is visited by Azrael, the angel of death, and warned of the consequences of his actions. After all, he dies on the eighth day after he decided to die.
publication
The comic was first published in 2004 by L'Association in France. Translations into English ( Pantheon Books ) and Spanish followed. In July 2006 a German translation by Martin Budde was published by Edition Moderne .
reception
In 2005 the comic won the award for the best album at the Angoulême Comic Festival .
Web links
- Edition Moderne for the German version