NAGASAKI - Agnès Hostache

With Nagasaki, Agnès Hostache brilliantly takes on a Japanese news story.

In adapting Eric Faye’s novel of the same name, the French illustrator achieves a miracle of sobriety.
In 2008, the story created a sensation for a while, reminding us that reality sometimes surpasses fiction: a Japanese man had discovered that a woman was secretly occupying his apartment. After noticing suspicious disappearances of food from his fridge, the man installed a security camera and caught the squatter. The woman, a homeless woman in her fifties, had taken refuge in a tiny wall cupboard and adopted the behaviour of a ghost.

The news caught the imagination of writer Eric Faye, who turned it into the award-winning novel Nagasaki. A decade later, illustrator Agnès Hostache reinforces the fascination exerted by this mysterious case by offering it a delicate graphic setting. In creating her adaptation, she was certainly able to draw on both her past experience in interior architecture and her taste for Japan (where, not coincidentally, she has already been exhibited).

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