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40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a four-month battle, leading to the end of the first Indochina war between French forces and Ho Chi Minh's nationalist rebels. Minh (no relation to Ho) is a young man from Hanoi, an aspiring painter who dreams of experiencing la vie boheme in Paris's Latin Quarter. To dissuade him from pursuing an artistic life, his father sends him into the countryside to tend to the family's holdings. He is soon pressed into serving with the Ho Chi Minh rebels, where he becomes a soldier despite repeatedly defying his cadres - ideological Communist commanders with whom he disagrees - becoming both hero and anti-hero in the process. 40 Men and 12 Rifles is a moving and beautifully illustrated book about the human and artistic spirit of the Indochinese people who persevered in the face of warfare and suffering. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Unfortunately, the narrative just runs out of steam halfway through as the paranoia goes on a little too long and Minh spends a lot of time just marching around before he settles into a boring role drawing propaganda.
I found it annoying that while the story is entirely in first-person narrative, we are given access to secondary characters thoughts . . . but only when they are thinking how handsome Minh is. It becomes drinking game ludicrous at a certain point, and I started to wonder if the author was self-inserting and stroking his own ego.
(Best of 2023 Project: I'm reading all the graphic novels that made it onto NPR's Books We Love 2023: Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels list.) ( )