Oslo sensommaren 2011: En knapp månad efter terrorangreppen den 22 juli ska Rebekka och Fariba börja på gymnasiet. Rebekka känner ingen av de som dödades, och tycker själv att hon borde kunna gå vidare med sitt liv. När Fariba engagerar sig politiskt försöker Rebekka att hänge sig åt skolans revy, åt Daniel med det lockiga håret, åt fester och skolan och kompisarna. Det är bara det att Rebekka tänker på det som hände hela tiden ... Missat samtal är en grafisk roman om att fortsätta leva efter ett terrorangrepp. Det är en berättelse om att leta efter mening i mötet med det meningslösa, om utanförskap, sorg och ångest. Om hur svårt det kan vara att nå varandra, och hur fantastiskt det är när vi lyckas med det. Nora Dåsnes är en prisbelönt och framgångsrik illustratör och författare till grafiska romaner. För Missat samtal mottog hon Nordiska rådets pris 2022. Nora har på kort tid blivit en av Norges mest hyllade och älskade barnboksförfattare/illustratörer. Alfabeta Bokförlag har tidigare givit ut de uppskattade grafiska romanerna Vita lögner, röda hjärtan och Låt skogen leva!.
Publication Year: 2021
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This is now one of my favourite graphic novels. Not just by Nora herself, but by any comic book writer. However, it sounds like I'm diminishing this story by calling it a comic book. Which I'm not trying to do.
It is the story of the aftermath of July 22 2011 when Norwegian teens were murdered on Utöya by a dangerous and mentally unstable terrorist and white man. We follow Rebekka, a teenager who was in Oslo when it happened and heard the car bomb go off, and she is having a hard time getting on with her life.
What I loved with this book was many things. First, how it is illustrated is brilliant. Mostly in a bluish color, but when she remembers something from that day, it is in red, making it stand out like a sore thumb. There is not that much text, so much is said in the illustrations, and it says a lot.
In the beginning we don't know why Rebekka is so affected by the events. It affected everyone, but slowly most people are able to get back to a somewhat normal life. But she is obsessing over it, specifically why it happened, and she can't find answers. What the reader slowly gets to see is her homelife. She has an older brother who is very depressed, always playing shooting games, sitting by his computer, using foul language, and her worries might not be that anything would happen to her, but that someone like her brother could do something as terrible as the terrorist, and therefore she wants to understand it.
But there are many layers to this book, and I think it is written and drawn beautifully and it really makes you think. Even if such an event can never be forgotten, it can drown in everything else that is happening, and this book helped bring it back to the surface.
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