{"id":45162,"date":"2019-04-02T11:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45162"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:27:04","slug":"letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45174\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gebe-BookDragon-571x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gebe-BookDragon-571x800.jpg 571w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gebe-BookDragon.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nOnce upon a time, they were \u201cthat happy family\u201d: two parents, two children, one dog, living in \u201cthe house of [their] dreams.\u201d And then they added a coastal apartment and a mountain escape \u2013 traversed via luxury car, then adventure mobile \u2013 and then more, and more. Until their world implodes, that is, and the foursome (minus the dog) are buried deep below with only an air vent connecting them to a mysterious voice above.<\/p>\n<p>What they can\u2019t see is an amorphously garbed postman in a gas mask, coveralls, and boots, who delivers letters he reads aloud through the air vent, revealing disjointed stories. Each is seemingly a clever parody of a distinct literary genre, including an allegory about love in a garden of smells, a <em>bildungsroman<\/em> following a teen through to old age, a murder mystery featuring a dead uncle, and a fairy tale delivered by a consummate showman. Who\u2019s controlling the narrative is an eerie reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in France in 1981, the late G\u00e9b\u00e9\u2019s post-apocalyptic warning makes its English-language debut thanks to award-winning, superbly prodigious (300-plus translated graphic titles!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardgauvin.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edward Gauvin<\/a>. His astute, context-rich introduction to the multi-faceted, Charlie Hebdo-famed Georges Blondeaux (\u201cG\u00e9b\u00e9\u201d is the French pronunciation of his initials) underscores \u2013 ironically, tragically, yet somehow comically \u2013 the timeless efficacy of this \u201cslim, disillusioned volume\u201d about the perils of blind capitalism and imminent self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gb\/pid=9716463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1981 (France), 2019 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, they were \u201cthat happy family\u201d: two parents, two children, one dog, living in \u201cthe house of [their] dreams.\u201d And then they added a coastal apartment and a mountain escape \u2013 traversed via luxury car, then adventure mobile \u2013 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,6,9513,73,6535,66,31],"tags":[6608,6668,49,9523,268,10,8332,8333,35],"class_list":["post-45162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-european","category-fiction","category-french","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-repost","category-translation","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-dystopia","tag-eco-fiction","tag-edward-gauvin","tag-family","tag-gebe","tag-letter-to-survivors","tag-speculative-fantasy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, they were \u201cthat happy family\u201d: two parents, two children, one dog, living in \u201cthe house of [their] dreams.\u201d And then they added a coastal apartment and a mountain escape \u2013 traversed via luxury car, then adventure mobile \u2013 and...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-02T15:12:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-27T18:27:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gebe-BookDragon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"629\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"881\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist] - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist] - BookDragon","og_description":"*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, they were \u201cthat happy family\u201d: two parents, two children, one dog, living in \u201cthe house of [their] dreams.\u201d And then they added a coastal apartment and a mountain escape \u2013 traversed via luxury car, then adventure mobile \u2013 and...","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"2019-04-02T15:12:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-01-27T18:27:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":629,"height":881,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Letter-to-Survivors-Gebe-BookDragon.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/","name":"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist] - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-04-02T15:12:25+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-27T18:27:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/letter-to-survivors-by-gebe-translated-by-edward-gauvin-in-booklist\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Letter to Survivors by G\u00e9b\u00e9, translated by Edward Gauvin [in Booklist]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45176,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45162\/revisions\/45176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}