Lunar New Year Love Story von Gene Luen Yang

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 352 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781035041886
Auflage / Bände: Main Market Ed.

Yang's storytelling is a multigenerational, multilayered, multicultural masterpiece of searching for lasting, empathic connection. Booklist, starred reviewLunar New Year Love Storyis a heartwarming graphic novel rom-com about fate, family, forgiveness, and lion dancing.

Lunar New Year Love Storyis a heartwarming, full colour, YA graphic novel rom-com about fate, family and falling in love, from superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham.<br><br>She was destined for heartbreak. Then fate handed her love.<br><br>Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed - no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love.<br><br>But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever . . . ?

2GBGene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. He was named a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2016, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. His graphic novelAmerican Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, has been adapted into an original series on Disney+. His two-volume graphic novelBoxers&Saintswon the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His nonfiction graphic novel,Dragon Hoops, received an Eisner award and a Printz honor. His other comics work includes Lunar New year Love Story (with LeUyen Pham),Secret Coders(with Mike Holmes),The Shadow Hero(with Sonny Liew), andSuperman Smashes the Klanand the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (both with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

LeUyen Pham has illustrated more than one hundred books for children, including the Caldecott Honor bookBear Came Alongby Richard T. Morris, Lunar New Year Love Storywith Gene Luen Yang and the bestselling Princess in Black series by Shannon and Dean Hale. She is the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the bestselling graphic memoirsReal Friends,Best Friends, andFriends Forever. Her own books includeThe Bear Who Wasn't ThereandBig Sister, Little Sister. A graduate of the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, LeUyen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

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