Flower Notebook

This fourth book in Aras’s comic book series, like the previously published Armenian Granny , Varto and Armenian Ghost , invites us to discover the stories that spread from the heart of Anatolia to all corners of the world, and to understand how the pages of history that were tried to be covered up, the pains that were tried to be suppressed, come back and affect people today. Laurent Galandon and Viviane Nicaise’s Çiçekli Notebook
, which was highly acclaimed in France where it was first published , invites us to solve the riddle of a puzzle with missing pieces while following the traces of a mysterious series of events. A violin, an unfinished composition and an adventure stretching from Anatolia to Paris… A world-famous Turkish violinist’s recital in France leads to an interesting acquaintance. The conversation the violinist has with an elderly Armenian whom he visits in the hospital, which begins with the deepest prejudices, will connect to what happened a hundred years ago and enable them to find those missing pieces in their family’s story. Who knows, maybe they are not as strangers to each other as they think. The Flower Notebook looks back at one of the most painful and turbulent periods of the geography we live in and shows that hope must live even in the darkest conditions. An exciting comic that never loses its rhythm and draws its reader in…