The Blind Mirror
Giacomo Nanni

A one-of-a-kind picture book with an almost blind mirror as a hero.

The hero of this book is a blind mirror; you couldn’t make it up! To be exact, it’s almost blind: everything is blurry to it. And if it can’t see the people looking at it, it means they can’t see themselves either. Has it become useless? It prefers to think about the past and all the wonderful things and animals it saw when it was still working and travelling with its old owner: the tall African giraffes, the penguins in the Antarctic that it calls “black and white lions”, the old gramophone that hosted famous triplet singers…

In this fanciful story, the line between real memories and confused recollections is blurry and creates humorous situations. At the end, the reader discovers with relief that the mirror isn’t blind at all: it just needed a good wipe!

An absurd story told in the first person by the mirror, addressing the topics of time, memories and aging in a fresh and funny way.

Giacomo Nanni
The author and illustrator

Born in 1971 in Rimini, Giacomo Nanni published several comic books at Cornelius and illustrated Bastien Contraire’s Pour faire une tarte aux pommes, il faut un pépin de pomme (Albin Michel Jeunesse). He worked with Le Monde, L’Obs, the magazine XXI and Libération. In 2020, his comic book Acte de Dieu published at Ici Même received an award at the Angoulême Festival. He lives and works in Paris.