Description: A beautiful graphic adaptation of Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel.
Brief description:
ODYR is a Brazilian graphic novelist, cartoonist, and painter. He is the co-author of the graphic novel Guadalupe, written with poet Angélica Freitas and published by Companhia das Letras. He also published Copacabana, co-written with scriptwriter Lobo and published in Portugal and France.
Review Quotes:
"Brazilian graphic novelist Odyr's 'fully authorized' adaptation (in accordance with The Estate of Sonia Brownell Orwell) of Orwell's 1945 classic is affecting example...alchemizing Orwell's period writing into a timeless, immediately terrifying warning about the dangers of abusive power."--Booklist "[Odyr's] rich brushstrokes do much to enhance the experience of Orwell's brand of satire."--New York Journal of Books