Gemma Bovery. Graphic Novel von Posy Simmonds (Grade: 1+)

Translated from the English by Annette von der Weppen
Hand lettering by Michael Hau
112 pages, black and white, 30.5 x 19.5 cm, paperback with flaps

The young illustrator Gemma Tate marries the divorced Charlie Bovery and thus involuntarily becomes the stepmother of his two children and the nightmare of his quarrelsome ex-wife. In this role, Gemma is soon fed up with London and persuades Charlie to move to Normandy with her. But the allure of French country life soon wears off and Gemma ekes out a dull existence in the middle of nowhere in Normandy.

For Gemma's new neighbor, the well-read baker Raymond Joubert, however, the idyllic country life takes on a whole new perspective when the Boverys acquire the old farmhouse nearby. He becomes obsessed with her and the idea that he is looking at the incarnation of Flaubert's heroine...

Based on Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece "Madame Bovary", Posy Simmonds has created a multi-layered panopticon about adultery and its consequences, betrayal and disappointment, dreams and life's lies. Told in a clever and psychologically dense way, "Gemma Bovery" is a multi-faceted comic in which Posy Simmonds succeeds in expressing the inner conflict of her characters thanks to her precise drawings.

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