Description
Product ID: | 9780141980102 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IT |
Title: | Heimat |
Subtitle: | A German Family Album |
Authors: | Author: Nora Krug |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction, Classic European style / tradition comic books, European history, Family history, tracing ancestors, Graphic novels: literary & memoirs, Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction, European history, Family history, tracing ancestors, Germany, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the YearWinner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyWinner of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Shortlisted for the Longman History Today Prize One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018'The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the Second World War, struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked raw emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and shared. Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually charting her way back to a country still tainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of history and home. The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-09-17 |