Look Hamlet

Name: Look Hamlet
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SKU: 9781632062598
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By Barbro Lindgren

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Look Hamlet is a darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensed prose by Barbro Lindgren, with illustrations by Anna Höglund. This unique take presents Hamlet as a lop-eared bunny grappling with his mother's perceived foolishness and his father's death. Distilling the tragedy into roughly 100 words accompanied by fifteen evocative etchings, it offers a strangely poignant and humorous reinterpretation of the classic play.
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This quirky and bold picture book suits Shakespeare enthusiasts, lovers of graphic novels, and readers who appreciate clever brevity and dark humour. Its playful, minimalist style makes it an engaging gift for adults and younger readers interested in fresh takes on classic literature.

A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Hglund.

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A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund.

Look Hamlet.

Hamlet not happy.

Hamlet's mommy dumb.

Hamlet's daddy dead.

So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey.

In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare's Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children's author Barbro Lindgren's pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans.

Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: "brevity is the soul of wit."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632062598

Publisher: Restless Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 December 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Restless Books

Illustration: 32 Illustrations

Contributors:

Illustrated by Anna Hoglund
Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 158.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 32

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Adult Graphic Novels Barbro Lindgren Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

Barbro Lindgren, born in 1937, is a Swedish author of innovative and multifaceted works for children of all ages. The winner of the world's largest children's literature prize, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), her body of work includes picture books, poetry, plays, and books for young adults. Since her debut as an author in 1965, she has published over a hundred titles, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Starting out as a poor painter, artist Anna Hglund believed making picture books would put more solid food on the table for her family. It didn't really. But she discovered the possibilities of the medium, which today she still considers the ultimate: the crossbreeding of text and picture suits her perfectly. She has been doing this since 1982, when she was twenty-four. Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her other translations include Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novels Montecore and Everything I Don't Remember and plays INVASION! and I Call My Brothers, Malin Persson Giolito's novel Quicksand, and Jonas Jonasson's novels The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old-Man.

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