Varto #[nn]

Two children — a girl wrapped in a headscarf and muted earth-toned robes, and a boy in a worn orange shirt — stand hand in hand against a spare, pale background, their expressions carrying a quiet, heartbreaking gravity. Created by Gorune Aprikian and Stéphane Torossian, Varto takes its subtitle straight from the cover: "1915, deux enfants dans la tourmente du génocide des Arméniens" — two children caught in the turmoil of the Armenian Genocide. Published by Steinkis in 2015, this Franco-Belgian graphic work promises a deeply human story told through the eyes of the young.