{"product_id":"prisoner-155-agustn-comotto-9781849353021","title":"Prisoner 155: Sim Radowitzky","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Sim n Radowitzky (1891-1956), a gentle soul caught up in a cruel world. The author\/illustrator is an Argentinian living in Spain where the book was first published in 2016. Radowitzky appears in a few books (recently \u003cem\u003eThe Anarchist Expropriators\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRebellion in Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e--both from AK Press), but this is the first English-language book devoted solely to him. His tumultuous life begins with his immigration from Ukraine to Argentina, followed by his assassination of Colonel Falcon (who presided over the slaughter of 100 workers) in 1909. Banished to a penal colony, he escaped, was recaptured and tortured, serving a total of twenty years. Upon release he joined the Spanish Revolution, after which he decamped for Mexico, where he died in 1956 while employed at a toy factory. Stuart Christie, author of \u003cem\u003eGranny Made Me an Anarchist\u003c\/em\u003e, introduces the AK Press edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"While Radowitzky's story has been told ... it has never been told in quite the way Agust n Comotto tells it. Through a series of flashbacks  \u003cem\u003ePrisoner 155\u003c\/em\u003e] examines the agonies and survival of an exceptional individual.\" --\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Comotto's \u003cem\u003ePrisoner 155\u003c\/em\u003e is, in my view, a truly great work, comparable to Art Spiegelman's \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e and Marjane Satrapi's \u003cem\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/em\u003e, rich with complexity and ambiguity, and whose shy and sensitive central character, a committed humanist imbued with a deep sense of justice who never expressed regret for the two lives he took, remains an enigma. He was one of countless men and women, the salt of the earth, most of them anonymous, who chose to resist against an unjust, class-ridden society in the hope of building a better world for humanity.\" --Stuart Christie, from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Agust匤 Comotto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849353026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849353021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Agust匤 Comotto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938999009535,"sku":"9781849353021","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f43cb36c-c15e-4c48-bfe5-7915082d1e37.jpg?v=1681438899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prisoner-155-agustn-comotto-9781849353021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}