English Summary/英文概要： A debut collection of ten short graphic narratives from Israel native Shadmi.

For readers of Adrian Tomine and Daniel Clowes, a smart and sophisticated literary graphic novel. Daniel Clowes meets David Cronenberg in these darkly poetic and absurdist graphic stories about sexuality, anxiety, and twentysomething romantic angst. This evocative collection of short graphic fiction, fuses the dark vision of David Lynch with the black humor of Daniel Clowes, In the Flesh introduces us to a haunting gallery of lost souls: A young man with an unhealthy crush on his decapitated classmate; photographer who obsessively documents his young granddaughter as she matures; a painter haunted by monumental memories of his former love as he circles helplessly in his empty loft; and a student destroyed his love for a young woman whose powerful allure is literally radioactive.

Reading these stories might take less than an hour, but their effects could last longer than the most haunting nightmare. Are they existential parables? Postmodern pornography: graphic sex that sparks more revulsion than desire? Illustrations of what one character terms “the cruelty of memory”? In many of the stories, people who are strangers to each other, perhaps even to themselves, share their perversions or obsessions as they joylessly mate and part. “The Fun Lawn” features a porn addict whose day job is dressing up in a dog suit for a children’s TV show; he meets his match in a woman who seems to want to have sex with the big dog. In “Antoinette,” a man becomes obsessed with a decapitated woman who cradles her head in her arm. Several narratives concern oral addictions that confuse food with sex. The best and most ambitious piece is “Radioactive Girlfriend,” in which a high-school student who sleeps through an atomic bomb while everyone else is in fallout shelters attracts the one boyfriend who isn’t afraid of radioactive contamination. Describing the nuclear blast, which produces a gorgeous sunrise, Shadmi writes: “As the whole town was bathed in radiant light, the most insignificant and mundane details of suburbia were suddenly reborn into a meaningful existence.” Christine, who was expected to die from exposure, finds herself more full of life than ever, sapping the strength of her boyfriend. Whatever any of this might “mean” in some linear thematic sense, the unsettling power of these stories comes from the tension between the hyper-realistic drawings and the elliptically surreal narratives.

Not for the squeamish or literal-minded, but in a genre whose artists routinely test all sorts of boundaries, this debut collection obliterates them.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 另类的出色，疯狂的美丽——以色列作家Koren Shadmi 首部漫画故事集迸发出的惊人力量！
这是一部由10个短篇故事孕育成的优秀作品。画面精致漂亮，极端的情节内容与流淌于其中的黑色幽默巧妙融合。讲述一系列有关性爱、焦虑的边缘故事，聚焦徘徊于黑暗中的失落灵魂，无不让人感叹深思。
另一方面，作者摆脱过于拘谨、平淡无奇的传统描写，整部作品始终给人一种出其不意感，俘虏心灵，不愧为实属罕见的佳作！
也许不必花上一小时，你就可以看完本书。但不可否认的是，阅读中赋予读者内心的冲击和震撼的确远远凌驾于夜晚纠缠于心的梦魇。
那么，究竟是怎样的情节会产生如此强烈的效果？请走进本书的世界，体验作者大胆独特的敏锐构思!
多数故事中，人与人之间是陌生的，甚至于自己也是如此。当他们遭遇失败的性交或不愉快的分手时，才会与他人分享这些变态固执的极端情绪。
“The Fun Lawn”——描述一位沉迷于色情文学的男子，他每天的兴趣就是穿着一身儿童电视节目中的狗套装，邂逅想要与他这只“大狗”性交的配偶……
“Antoinette”—— 一名被斩首的妇女，将其头颅置于手臂中，如此惊愕的情景却令男人深深着迷、一见钟情……
“Radioactive Girlfriend ”—— 原子弹即将爆炸的那一刻，其他人早已去放射性微粒隐蔽所避难。然而，一心想死的年轻少女仍处于熟睡之中，此举使一名陌生男子抛下原来的女友，无视辐射的污染，决定留下陪同这名特殊的陌生人，一起迎接原子弹爆炸后出现的绚烂日出……
此外还有“摄影师对自己日渐发育成熟的孙女萌生出的疯狂爱恋”；“画家每每在空阁楼里无助的转圈时，他对前任爱人无法忘却的回忆就如同失控的潮水不断袭来”等怪异又令人印象颇深的精彩故事在等待您的加入！（ZY）

Awards/获奖情况： 版權已售：法國、義大利