Chicken with Plums

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Chicken with Plums
(Poulet aux prunes)
Marjane Satrapi - Poulet aux prunes - French edition cover.jpg
French edition cover
Date2004
Page count96 pages
Publisher L'Association
Creative team
Creator Marjane Satrapi
Original publication
Published inFrance
Date of publicationOctober 2004
LanguageFrench
ISBN 2-84414-159-5
Translation
Publisher Pantheon Books
Date2006
ISBN 0375424156
TranslatorAnjali Singh

Chicken with Plums (French: Poulet aux prunes) is a 2004 graphic novel by Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.

Contents

Synopsis

Nasser Ali Khan, a relative of Satrapi's and a Tar player, has his cherished instrument broken after a quarrel. The book narrates the last eight days of his life as he lost the will to live, in November 1958 in Tehran.

Publication history

The original French-language version was published in France in 2004 and the English version was translated by Anjali Singh and published by Pantheon Books in 2006 ( ISBN   0375424156), followed by a softcover version in 2009 ( ISBN   0375714758).

Awards

Chicken with Plums won the Best Album Award (Prix du Meilleur Album) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005. [1] [2]

Film adaptation

Satrapi directed a film adaptation of the comic, which debuted at the La Pate theatre in France on October 26, 2011.

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