Berlin – The Seven Dwarves
Berlin – The Seven Dwarves, by Marvano, Cinebook
TWO ELDERLY ladies meet in a field in Lincolnshire and the one being pushed in a wheelchair gives the younger a rag doll that had been thought lost forever. And so begins a quiet tale of reminiscing and the piecing together of chance meetings and a clandestine rendezvous that weave in and out of a narrative told in a letter written in 1943.
It is the tale of seven young air pilots, dwarves in the grand madness that was World War II; of Snow White their plane, and the flesh and blood females who one of them came to know personally.
Strong on technical detail in a documentary manner, at turns voyeuristic and impressionistic in the manner of a film; at other touching in a literary style. It is in fact only in the final pages where experiences and changes are revealed, gently, tragically, purposefully and ultimately with a sad joy that the tale comes full circle and you close the book knowing the time has been well spent in experiencing the reading of this graphic novel by the Belgian creator Mark Van Oppen, otherwise known as Marvano.
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