{"product_id":"tongues-i","title":"Tongues I","description":"From the revered graphic artist and writer Anders Nilsen, Tongues collects together in one volume for the first time Nilsen's cult comics and their retelling of the myth of Prometheus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mindbendingly good. It's up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan'\u003cbr\u003eMARK HADDON, author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the remotest reaches of Central Asia where rival groups war over oil, a minor god is chained to a mountainside. Unfolding in a series of conversations with his unlikely friend the eagle, who visits every day to carry out a gruesome sentence of torture, Tongues I follows the titan's pursuit of revenge on the god that imprisoned him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntwined with their story are those of Astrid, a teenage East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a man with a teddy bear strapped to his back wandering aimlessly in the wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTongues I is a postmodern, apocalyptic reimagining of Prometheus' story, here a fallible god failing in his duty as the creator and protector of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA visual meditation on our deep evolutionary past and our complicated prospects for the future, Tongues I is both a propulsive story of adventure and an examination of human nature in our present moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A genuinely mind-blowing achievement. [...] A dazzlingly innovative feat which surprises and delights on every page, across the epic whole and in every strange detail.' \u003cbr\u003eMAX PORTER, author of LANNY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One utterly gorgeous comic'\u003cbr\u003eVULTURE","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54204453192018,"sku":"9781787330658","price":31.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_89edcb6f-28a0-42c7-8d5b-6742143de0d9.jpg?v=1786107624","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/tongues-i","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}