{"product_id":"boris-the-potato-child-book-anne-simon-9781683965626","title":"Boris the Potato Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her latest graphic novel, French artist and illustrator Anne Simon returns to her visually and allegorically rich fantasyland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the country Marylene. Since Marylene's fall, residents have lived in peace thanks to a self-governing system they have adopted. But when Boris meets Sabine, a warrior French fry thirsty for revenge, nothing will ever be the same ...The third book in Anne Simon's \"Tales of Marylene '' graphic novel series (after \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Aglaia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpress Cixtisis\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBoris the Potato Child\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses and abuses. Mixing literature and pop culture (such as mashing Simone de Beauvoir with the Beatles), Simon has created in Marylene a world as abundant in visual imagination as Oz or Narnia, but crafted with a Swiftian pen that's mightier than any man's sword.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740657721617,"sku":"NGR9781683965626","price":27.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683965620.jpg?v=1750993681","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/boris-the-potato-child-book-anne-simon-9781683965626","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}