Tree of Love: Songs of Our Ancestors: Volume III

Songs of Our Ancestors #3

by Patrick Atangan

In the next volume of Patrick Atangan's Asian folktale collection, Tree of Love celebrates India's tradition of elevating romance to a work of art. Atangan adapts Rajput polyptych paintings of northern India and transforms them into a unique and poetic comic experience. Tree of Love follows a prince's courtship of a flower peddler. The young prince is surprised by the difficulty in proving the worthiness of what everyone sees as a common woman. But she has a secret, a special gift bound in the beauty and power of nature.
Each page faithfully ornaments Tree of Love 's painfully universal story about the intricacies of love.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 5 out of 5]

The prints that border every page!

[Brian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well done, but I didn't like the story quite as much as the earlier volumes.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

As myths often are, this book wasn't about characters so much as the moral. I really like the art, though.