Above Us the Milky Way
Written and Illustrated by Fowzia Karimi
Above Us the Milky Way is a story about a young family forced to flee a war-ravaged homeland, and to leave behind everything and everyone beloved and familiar. As they reconstruct their lives in a new and peaceful country, they are daily drawn back to the first land through remembrance and longing, by news of the ongoing suffering and loss of loved ones, and by the war dead, who have immigrated and reside with them, haunting their days and illuminating the small joys and wonders offered them by the new land.
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small pieces
Written by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Illustrated by Fowzia Karimi
small pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories—miniatures as Marcom calls them—with Karimi's watercolors. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.
Faust
By Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner
Illustrated by Fowzia Karimi
This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner brings Goethe’s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language.
The Brick House
Written by Micheline Marcom
Illustrated by Fowzia Karimi
The Brick House is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives in the strange, elemental language which dreams allow for, a strangeness mirrored in the accompanying illustrations by Fowzia Karimi. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and following in the tradition of Armenian illuminated manuscripts, The Brick House is a delight to the eye and mind.
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Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors
Written by Kendra Greene
Illustrated by Fowzia Karimi
Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors traces the origins, impact, and significance of a bird collection turned museum on the shores of Iceland's Lake Mvatn. The lake supports a eutrophic ecology that, among other things, gives life to an all-but-complete collection of Icelandic birds. The birds, or maybe their collection, give purpose to Sigurgeir, a native son who has been sighting birds and gathering eggs on the lakeside family farm since childhood. When Sigurgeir is killed in an accident on the lake, his family begins a decade-long struggle to make a museum. In this gorgeously illustrated, long-form lyric essay, Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors concerns itself with family, gender, and memorials as it examines the grief, natural history, and accomplishment of Sigurgeir's Bird Museum.