Alone
By: Chabouté ; translation by Ivanka Hahnenberger
Contributors: Hahnenberger, Ivanka, translator
Publisher: Gallery 13
Published: Jul 11, 2017
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Alone
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781501153327
Subjects: Lighthouses; Solitude; Stories without words; Hermits; Islands; Translations into English; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Chaboute Alone
Work titles: Tout Seul
Description: On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone?

Years spent on a deserted rock—a lifetime, really—with imagination his sole companion has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be...nothing. And so, why not stay put? But one day, as a new boatman starts asking the questions all others have avoided, a chain of events unfolds that will irrevocably upend the hermit’s solitary life....

Filled with stunning and richly executed black-and-white illustrations, Alone is Chabouté’s masterpiece—an unforgettable tale where tenderness, despair, and humor intertwine to flawlessly portray how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone.
Notes: This is the English version, translated from the original French version