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Cover of The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron CurtainNominee2008

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

by Peter Sís

Nominated. Each year the judges shortlist only a handful of books in each category, so a nomination is a mark of a book the comics world rates among the best of its year.

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Memoir and real lives, History
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Farrar / 56 pages / ISBN 9780374347017
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