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An account of two lives during the war in Ukraine: one Ukrainian,
one Russian, by the internationally bestselling author of Heimat
Immediately following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February
2022, Nora Krug connected with two anonymous subjects - 'K.', a
Ukrainian journalist, and 'D.', a Russian artist - and began what
would become a year of correspondence. Deeply moved by the rawness
of their responses, she felt that through the personal accounts of
these individuals who, directly and indirectly, experienced the war
firsthand, she might be able to communicate something of the war
and its human impact. Over the course of the next twelve months she
communicated with each of them individually via phone chat,
condensing their sometimes fluid, sometimes fragmentary answers
into a consistent narrative and then created illustrations to go
with each entry. The personal accounts contained in this book
chronicle the first year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in an
intimate, epistolary format. Diaries of War explores the personal,
the political, conflict, family and daily life under war with
immense skill, compassion and moving thoughtfulness. Through these
two individuals we see the granular effects of war on two lives,
but they are emblematic of millions. Diaries of War is a harrowing
record of a heart-wrenching historical event that has devastated
the world and continues to alter countless lives.
A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.
In her late thirties, 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 and young adult. 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 Italy. Her extraordinary quest, spanning continents and generations, pieces together her family’s troubling story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation.
Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoir—equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative—Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong to one’s country and one’s family. A wholly original record of a German woman’s struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries’ pasts.
A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book
of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward
authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the
essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in
twentieth-century history to teach twenty lessons on resisting
modern-day authoritarianism. These include a warning to be aware of
how symbols used today could affect tomorrow, an urgent reminder to
research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent, and an
encouragement to use personalised and individualised speech rather
than cliched phrases when arguing a point In this graphic edition,
Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive style in Heimat - at once
a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative and
trove of memories - to breathe new life, colour and power into
Snyder's modern classic, turning a quick-read pocket guide of
lessons into a visually striking rumination and call for action.
'On Tyranny is a must read, a clear-eyed guidebook' Ken Burns
History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In a time of great
uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasises
the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate
participants in resistance.
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 Nora 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
*WINNER of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for
Autobiography* One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn
2018' The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 Nora 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.
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