Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *

* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal

This â€œingenious reckoning with the pastâ€ (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her familyâ€™s wartime history in Nazi Germany.

Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own familyâ€™s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.

After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didnâ€™t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her fatherâ€™s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, â€œKrug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it allâ€ (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, â€œthoughtful, engrossingâ€ (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging â€œpacks the power of Alison Bechdelâ€™s Fun Home and David Smallâ€™s Stitchesâ€ (NPR.org).
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 51143229
ReleaseDate 2018-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476796628

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	51143229
ReleaseDate	2018-10-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476796628

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

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