Heimat

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 Year
Winner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards
Winner of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Winner 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 2018

NoraKrug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the SecondWorld War, struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country'srecent past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked rawemotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and shared.

Seventeenyears after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug decided she couldn'tknow who she was without confronting where she'd come from. In Heimat,she documents her journey investigating the lives of her family membersunder the Nazi regime, visually charting her way back to a country stilltainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is apowerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and themeaning of history and home.

Reviews

Krug probes her family's actions in Nazi Germany, conducting interviews and roaming archives and flea markets. She confronts past and present in a book that's been praised for its invention and bravery.