Date 02 September 2020
Pages 201
Format cm 22 x 30
Price € 25.00
EAN 9782377312511
Publisher Website www.editions-sarbacane.com

The Alcazar

Publisher Sarbacane
COLLECTION Bande dessinée
Age Adults
An authentic and intimate cultural portrait of Indian society in all its complexity, diversity, and castes.

The setting: a residential neighborhood in a modern-day Indian metropolis. A dozen characters from across the land find themselves gathered at the construction site for an apartment tower: Ali, a young, inexperienced engineer; Trinna, an uncompromising foreman; Rafik, Mehboob, and Salma, laborers from the provinces who dream of a better tomorrow… not to mention Ganesh and his band of Rajasthanis, Hindu tileworkers with conservative outlooks, swelling the ranks at a site overseen by a rich young developer. This cross-section of contemporary India is a theater where languages, religions, leaders, and followers play out their tragicomic fates, ever-threatened by unemployment and bankruptcy.

  • Sales in France 12,000 copies
  • Awards BD du Mois RTL octobre 2020
  • As of: June 2021