The Can Opener's Daughter
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
“Mum started drinking after she became prime minister. Dad started hiding under my bed.”
In the British Comic Award-winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: “Who the hell is Vera Pike?” Now we get a chance to find out.
Vera lives in the cruel world of Grave Acre. Her mother is the Weather Clock, the megalomaniacal Prime Minister of Chance. Her father is a can opener. Charting Vera’s childhood, the second part of Rob Davis’ trilogy takes us from her home in Parliament to suicide school, and from the Bear Park to the black woods that lie beyond. In the present day, Vera and Castro Smith are determined to see their friend Scarper again – but is he even still alive? Can anyone outlive their deathday? A darkly inventive sequel, The Can Opener’s Daughter answers many of the questions posed in The Motherless Oven, while asking plenty more of its own.
Praise for The Motherless Oven:
NOMINATED – Eisner award for Best Graphic Novel (2015)
WINNER – British Comic award for Best Book (2015)
“Brimming with invention, Davis subverts and deepens the school adventure yarn and asks if anyone can escape their fate.” – The Independent
“You’re drawn in by its strange world and you come to care about its characters, and both are so vivid that the result is an outstanding piece of work.” – SFX Magazine
“A graphic novel of incredible resonance and absolute, inscrutable beauty, at once a coming-of-age and coming-to-terms tale…” – Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In The Motherless Oven, Davis crafted a wholly original world with surrealist and satirical flourishes, in which storms of knives fall from the sky, children build their own inanimate object parents, and everyone knows the day of their death. In this follow-up, the middle book of a trilogy, Davis expands this world by revealing the backstory of his mysterious schoolgirl heroine Vera Pike, focusing on her relationship with her parents, most notably her weather-clock mother. Davis also picks up the cliff-hanger from the first book as Vera and her friend, Castro, help the protagonist of the previous book, Scarper, to survive his death day. Davis has crafted a universe totally lacking in derivative concepts or even references that the reader can cling to. The dialogue is filled with philosophical ideas and pull quotes of crafty wisdom, and the scrappy black-and-white art offers frenetic action within an absurd reality that leaves other dystopian fictions in the dust.
