BOOK / BLOOD OF MY BLOOD. Lola Lorente

DRAMA

Two teenagers, best friends, the best of friends, are preparing for the biggest party of the year in the Carnelia neighborhood. Oscillating between reality and fantasy, between the naive and the disturbing, Blood of My Blood, a graphic novel that took four years of work to reach its final form, explores the psychology of its characters, their dreams, their memories, and, above all, the relationships and hierarchies established in each family, in each micro-world.

Unresolved Oedipal complexes, sibling rivalries, absent parents (present or not), children living in their own world, teenagers with a taste for the different and sensibilities "outside the norm," parents and children mired in their own blockages, anxieties, desires, hopes, and various obsessions, lack of communication... Lola Lorente skillfully uses multiple resources to show a different, realistic, and magical world, somewhere between naive and disturbing, into which the reader enters with a firm step.

The characters show, sometimes in a subtle way, their fears, frustrations, desires, and traumas through fantasy or escape into other worlds, which contrast sharply with the reality they live in. On a graphic level, Lola Lorente moves between the naive and the baroque, between synthesis and detail, creating a universe that fluidly fits the tone of the story.

"Lorente handles this clash between innocence, dark fantasy, and everyday tragedy with murky beauty, and the result is a powerful exercise in sad and uncomfortable graphic poetry." Daniel Ausente. Rockdelux

Title: Sangre de mi sangre
Author: Lola Lorente
Pages: 208
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Weight: 680 grams
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ASTIBERRI
Year: 2013