{"product_id":"the-city-of-belgium-hardcover","title":"The City of Belgium - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrecht Evens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exquisitely drawn exploration of three lost souls' emotional terrain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties--a most dangerous age--arrive at a popular restaurant. Jona is about to move away; he calls his wife, who's already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town. No one bites--they're all busy or maybe they just don't want to party--but he's determined to make this night something to remember. Victoria is lively and energetic, but surrounded by friends and family who are buzzkills, always worrying about what is best for her. Rodolphe glumly considers his own misery and then suddenly snaps out of it, becoming the life of the party. The three careen through the city's nightlife spots and underbelly, getting ever deeper in the messiness of human existence as they chase pleasure--or at least a few distractions from their daily lives. Each has a series of misadventures that reveal them to be teetering on the edge of despair, of destruction, of becoming the people they'll be for the rest of their lives. \u003ci\u003eThe City of Belgium\u003c\/i\u003e occupies a place between lucid dream and tooth-grinding nightmare.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Belgian cartoonist \u003cb\u003eBrecht Evens\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1986 and studied illustration in Ghent, Belgium. \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) started out as a graduation project and was a departure from the more typical comic art of his earlier work. It won the Haarlem Comic Festival's Willy Vandersteen Award for best Dutch-language graphic novel, and an award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He followed \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Place\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003eThe Making Of\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003ePanther\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), which appeared on numerous best-of-the-year lists, including NPR, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Evens lives in Paris in a charming and oh-so-Parisian garret apartment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.2 x 7.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770226147616,"sku":"9781770463424","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/91f9b8e390ea7288558bb6147e3e4c9f.webp?v=1780367245","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-city-of-belgium-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}