Nora Krug

* 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 “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’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 family’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 didn’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 father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug 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 all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org).

A German Reckons with History and Home

Belonging

A Memoir of History and Home

Heimat

Aufzeichnungen einer deutschen Ausgewanderten

Best-seller na Alemanha e vencedor do National Book Critics Circle na categoria autobiografia, Heimat é um romance gráfico brutalmente tocante sobre identidade, história e o significado da palavra “pertencer”. “Uma paisagem ou localidade real, imaginária ou construída, à qual uma pessoa associa uma sensação imediata de familiaridade.” Esse é o significado da palavra alemã “heimat” que neste livro se combina a uma pergunta-chave: “Como saber quem você é sem entender de onde você veio?”. Nora Krug nasceu décadas após a queda do regime nazista, mas a sombra da Segunda Guerra Mundial parecia sempre à espreita durante sua juventude. Ela, no entanto, sabia pouco sobre o envolvimento de sua família na guerra, seus pais e avós nunca falavam sobre isso. Depois de doze anos vivendo nos Estados Unidos, decidiu que precisava olhar para trás e, principalmente, fazer as perguntas que nunca tinha feito. De volta à Alemanha, Krug visitou arquivos, realizou pesquisas e entrevistou familiares, descobrindo histórias como a de seu avô materno, que foi mecânico e motorista durante a guerra, e a do irmão de seu pai, Franz-Karl, que morreu ainda adolescente quando era soldado da SS. O resultado é um livro único, que evidencia a brutalidade da catástrofe do Holocausto ao mesmo tempo que apaga as fronteiras entre diário, narrativa em quadrinhos e caderno de colagens e anotações. Enquanto Krug mergulha na hora mais escura do século XX e tenta entender o lugar de sua família nisso tudo, somos levados por um relato incisivo, perturbador, uma obra sem igual no universo das HQs. “Em um irresistível álbum de desenhos e colagens repleto de acertos de contas com o passado, Nora Krug narra a história da sua família com a franqueza das imagens e da escrita e um desamparo perturbador, que encontra ecos hoje em nossa vida. Heimat é precioso, saboroso e — nem é preciso dizer — altamente recomendado.” — Chris Ware “Neste extraordinário livro de memórias, a autora disseca o antissemitismo no passado de sua própria família e a culpa nacional alemã sobre o Holocausto – além de refletir sobre a recente volta à cena da extrema direita ao redor do mundo.” — The Guardian

Ponderações de uma alemã sobre sua terra e história

Powerful graphic journalism that highlights the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia’s war on Ukraine—collected, edited, and illustrated by award-winning author Nora Krug Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects—“K.,” a Ukrainian journalist, and “D.,” a Russian artist—and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war. With millions displaced, injured, or killed as a result of the invasion, Krug presents a look at the devastating effects on an everyday, individual level. K.’s diary documents a year of emotional and existential distress. She experiences loss in every sense of the word: the death of those close to her, the disconnection from her family and friends, and the devastation of her country—but her account is also a story about bravery and survival in the face of dire uncertainty. In juxtaposition, D.’s narrative details his disdain for his government’s murderous actions and his attempts at emigrating his family abroad. He navigates his own struggle with cultural identity, guilt, and lack of action in the face of a tyrannical regime—a perspective that is necessary in challenging readers to confront the political actions of their own countries. Krug approaches Diaries of War with the immense skill and thoughtfulness required to document these two complicated experiences for the purpose of encouraging critical thinking. Published as an Op-Comic series with the Los Angeles Times, with a portion of the entries unique to this book, Diaries of War is a harrowing real-time record of an international conflict that continues to devastate countless lives.

Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia [A Graphic Novel History]

Diaries of War

Ein deutsches Familienalbum - Nominiert für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2020

A German Family Album

Vitchyzna

l' album di una famiglia tedesca

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