{"id":21472,"date":"2014-01-06T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21472"},"modified":"2014-01-09T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:58:42","slug":"the-property-by-rutu-modan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-property-by-rutu-modan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Property by Rutu Modan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"theproperty\"<\/a>In Rutu Modan’s The Property<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Mica and her grandmother, Regina are traveling from Israel to Warsaw, Poland.\u00a0Just before World War II Regina had married and moved to Israel. Years later, as the only surviving member of her family, she was contacted and inform that she was entitled to reclaim her family’s property. \u00a0For twenty years she left the property unclaimed, but following the death of her son and Mica’s father, Reuben, she decided to make the trip.<\/p>\n

Returning to Warsaw, Regina is overwhelmed with the guilt and shame of a long hidden family secrets.\u00a0Modan beautifully illustrates how our perceptions of ourselves and our world are shaped by cultural and personal histories, and The Property<\/strong><\/em> successfully (and subtly) exposes the generational divide in a family and in a city. \u00a0With charming illustrations\u00a0<\/span>reminiscent\u00a0of\u00a0Herg\u00e9’s Tintin<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and a witty\u00a0<\/span>sense\u00a0of humor, The Property<\/strong><\/em> is <\/span>a graphic novel sure to win over some\u00a0<\/span>skeptics\u00a0of the genre. \u00a0I would recommend to fans of Maus<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Art Spiegelman,\u00a0Unterzakhn<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Leela Corman, or Stones from the River<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ursula Hegi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Rutu Modan’s The Property,\u00a0Mica and her grandmother, Regina are traveling from Israel to Warsaw, Poland.\u00a0Just before World War II Regina had married and moved to Israel. Years later, as the only surviving member of her family, she was contacted and inform that she was entitled to reclaim her family’s[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[2528,697,449,2527,2526,2525,2524],"class_list":["post-21472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-family-secrets","tag-holocaust","tag-israel","tag-mourning","tag-property","tag-warsaw","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5Ak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21472\/revisions\/21603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}