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Mechner, Jordan,
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Replay :
memoir of an uprooted family /
Jordan Mechner.
[United States] :
First Second,
[2024]
317 pages :
chiefly illustrations ;
24 cm.
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"Previously published in French under the title Replay: Mémoires d'une famille.".
"In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces his family's journey through war, Nazi occupation, and everyday marital strife. 1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi regime and reunite with his family on the other side of the Atlantic. 2015. The creator of a world-famous video game franchise weighs the costs of uprooting his family and moving to France as the cracks in his marriage begin to grow."--
From publisher's description.
20241230.
Mechner, Jordan.
Video games industry.
Computer programmers
Biography.
Families
Biography.
Holocaust survivors
Biography.
Jewish refugees
Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Personal narratives.
World War, 1914-1918
Biography.
World War, 1939-1945
Biography.
Autobiographical comics.
Graphic novel format.
QS5