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This highly anticipated new graphic novel from Manuele Fior (The Interview and 5,000 KM Per Second) showcases his singular talents as a once-in-a-generation visual artist and a deeply empathetic writer who uses science fiction to look to the future of humanity. The "Great Invasion" originated from the sea. It moved north across the mainland. Many fled, while some took refuge on a small concrete island called Celestia, built over a thousand years ago. Now cut off from the mainland, Celestia show more has become an outpost for criminals and other misfits, as well as a refuge for a group of young telepaths. Events push two of them, Dora and Pierrot, to flee the island and set sail to the mainland. There, they discover a world on the precipice of a metamorphosis, though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses, unintentionally preserving the "old world" at a time when a new generation could guide society towards a better humanity. Celestia is the most ambitious and successful graphic novel to date by one of the world's most exciting storytellers. show lessTags
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Pierrot and Dora are telepaths who live on the nearly empty island of Celestia, a stone fortress where some people took refuge when a great sea invasion came to the mainland. Pierrot's father has gathered some other telepaths into a group; he says that their thoughts are their own but telepathy belongs to the group; Pierrot resists. He and Dora leave Celestia briefly, meeting others and exploring the hospital where Pierrot's mother used to work; he has visions of a bridge blowing up, his mother being killed. People help Pierrot and Dora return to Celestia. Though there is some resolution, Pierrot is clearly suffering from childhood trauma, and Dora seems traumatized as well.
Much of the story is told in the images in the panels, though show more there is text (some dialogue and some captions). I'm not sure I gleaned all the meaning there was on the page; it is a strange, dreamy story, cinematic; there is a lot of nudity. show less
Much of the story is told in the images in the panels, though show more there is text (some dialogue and some captions). I'm not sure I gleaned all the meaning there was on the page; it is a strange, dreamy story, cinematic; there is a lot of nudity. show less
European stuff and nonsense. In a post-apocalypse world, a couple of telepaths are on the run/pursuing a vague quest that takes them from their island refuge to the mainland and back. Nothing much of importance occurs, but there is some fan service -- topless women and up-skirt shots for pantyhose fetishists -- if that's what you're wanting.
Manuele Fior brinda al lector una fábula sobre la capacidad de los más jóvenes para solucionar los problemas del viejo mundo en esta obra que se sitúa en un presente alternativo, diferente y al mismo tiempo similar al nuestro. Una gran invasión, llegada del mar, ha diezmado a la humanidad, de la que algunos han escapado encontrando refugio en una pequeña isla de piedra construida hace más de mil años y conocida como Celestia, una hermana gemela de Venecia que bebe de las creaciones de Miyazaki. Dora y Pierrot, los protagonistas de esta historia, se adentrarán en los límites de la laguna para descubrir el mundo que los rodea: una zona en plena metamorfosis habitada por una sociedad en la que los niños cuidan de los pocos show more adultos supervivientes. show less
Nov 17, 2021Spanish
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- Original title
- Celestia
- Original publication date
- 2019
- People/Characters
- Pierrot Vivaldi; Rossella; Dr. Vivaldi (father of Pierrot Vivaldi); Raffaella; Andreina
- Important places
- Celestia
- Epigraph
- The boat's slow progress through the night was like the passage of a coherent thought through the subconcious. - Joseph Brodsky, Watermark (1989)
[...] and before coming to Paris to teach the joy of life, before coming to London to teach being free, before coming to New York to teach brotherhood -- they will destroy Rome and on its ruins plant the seed of Ancient Histo... (show all)ry. - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Prophecy (1964) - First words
- The Great Invasion came by sea.
It spread north up the mainland.
Many fled. Others took refuge on a small island.
An island of stone, built in the water over a thousand years ago.
Its name is Celestia.
Ho there! Code word!
Read it in my mind. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Let's go, Pierrot.
Where?
Out. I want to see what it's like. - Original language
- Italian
- Disambiguation notice
- Originally published in Italian as Celestia 1 and 2.
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- Graphic Novels & Comics, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5945 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing and drawings Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography European Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta
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- PN6767 .F56 .C4513 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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