Todavía estoy vivo (Spanish Edition)

THE STORY OF A SURVIVOR WHO REFUSES TO SURRENDER: THE FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL BY ROBERTO SAVIANO, ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 ACCORDING TO EL MUNDO, LA VANGUARDIA, AND ESQUIRE

"It is not true that from battle, you either return alive or you don't return at all; in case you do return, you will return wounded. What you are about to read is my wound," states Roberto Saviano.

In 2006, Saviano was told he would live under protection for a few weeks, but that day, his life changed forever. This is the story of a survivor who refuses to surrender.

"Here, a resistance carried out with words as the only artillery and within the perimeter of one's own body is recounted, based on the premise that from any struggle, one learns a single rule: it is not true that from battle, you either return alive or you don't return at all; in case you do return, you will return wounded. What you are about to read is my wound."

Still Alive is a unique book, an unusual collaboration between two great storytellers. It is the intimate and raw account of the last fifteen years in the life of Roberto Saviano, during which he has been forced to live in hiding, threatened with death by the Camorra. His words engage in dialogue with Asaf Hanuka's agile and symbolic strokes, recalling the days of a lost freedom - that of the passionate child captivated by comics who enjoyed playing with his brother - until transforming into a claustrophobic present, the price to pay for having raised his voice, obliging him to always be tethered to his bodyguards. It is the life of a wounded man, yet one who continues to fight.

The critics have said: "I feel humble, almost insignificant, in the face of the dignity and courage of the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, a master of life." - José Saramago

"Recommended. A powerful work playing with the language of comics to adapt the author of Gomorrah's harsh personal story, persecuted by the mafia." - Borja Crespo

"A desperate cry to remind the world that he is still here, against the living death of oblivion." - Daniel Verdú, El País

"In the most moving pages of this comic, full of visual metaphors, there is no blood or guns: they are the ones that capture the emotional anguish of a life in suspension, like that in which, after years of holding back tears, we see him cry until submerged in his own tears turned into an ocean." - Fernando Díaz de Quijano, El Cultural

"Saviano pours out his frustration and pain, but there is also a lot of tenderness." - Paula Corroto, El Confidencial

"Saviano shouts in the face of the Camorra that 'I am still alive,' and Hanuka knows how to make it visually interesting and attractive without taking anything away from the denunciation." - Manuel Muñiz, ABC Cultural

"A liberating scream from his harrowing life under the radar." - Laura Barrachina, El Ojo Crítico

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