Available in English for the first time--the internationally
bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France's
prestigious Angoulême Internaional Comics Festival by master
illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick).
On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely
hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves
provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious
questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is
it like to be so alone?
Years spent on a deserted rock--a lifetime, really--with imagination his
sole companion has made the lighthouse keeper something more than
alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon
might be...nothing. And so, why not stay put? But one day, as a new
boatman starts asking the questions all others have avoided, a chain of
events unfolds that will irrevocably upend the hermit's solitary
life....
Filled with stunning and richly executed black-and-white illustrations,
Alone is Chabouté's masterpiece--an unforgettable tale where
tenderness, despair, and humor intertwine to flawlessly portray how
someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone.
Translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger.
