Salammbo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781785866647)

A heady perfume of blood and rage across the stars featuring Philippe Druillet's legendary Lone Sloane.

In the third century BC, mercenaries employed by Carthage during the first Punic War rose against their employers, who repeatedly postponed their pay. Two barbarian clan chiefs, Matho and Narr'Havas, fell in love with the beautiful and ethereal Salammbo, daughter of Hamilcar of Carthage. A bloody conflict arose.

Based on the 19th century novel by Flaubert, Salammbo was reappropriated and recontextualised by Druillet in this masterwork. Transposing the ancient Punic Wars into his space fantasy universe, and splicing the identity of the novel's Math with his favorite character, Lone Sloane, Druillet works his intoxicatingly psychedelic magic on a literary classic, reinvigorating it from the inside out with his own transcendent storytelling.

Author: Philippe Druillet, Gustave Flaubert
ISBN-10: 1785866648
ISBN-13: 9781785866647
Publisher: Titan Comics
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2019
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 12.50h x 9.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/14/2019