Olimpita

Author: Hernán Migoya y Joan M. Marín
- Fiction
- Norma Editorial
- ISBN: 9788498478587
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Sarah G Wenzel

Written by Migoya and drawn by Marín, this graphic novel tells the story of fishmonger Olimpita García García who falls in love with a Senegalese immigrant, upending her life. The neighborhood in which she and her husband, immigrants themselves from Andalucía to Catalonia, live is carefully portrayed. The difficulties of immigration, from broken dreams, uprootedness and loss of identity, to poverty and despair are starkly evident, in part through the destabilizing use of both Catalan and Spanish.

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