{"title":"Graphic Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Graphic Novels collection. Hot Sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"belonging-a-german-reckons-with-history-and-home-by-nora-krug","title":"Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNora 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter 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” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e). 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Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Rutu Modan's second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little different than what her grandmother led her to believe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModan offers up a world populated by prickly seniors, smart-alecky public servants, and stubborn women-a world whose realism is expressed alternately in the absurdity of people's behavior and in the complex consequences of their sacrifices. Modan's ever-present wit is articulated perfectly in her clear-line style, while a subtle, almost muted color palette complements the true-to-life nuances of her characterization. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e made a huge splash for this signature combination of wit, style, and realism, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Property\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewill cement Modan's status as one of the foremost cartoonists working today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495247675453,"sku":"cxx1787285407306","price":17.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/the-property-by-rutu-modan_1.jpg?v=1787285412"}],"url":"https:\/\/ownstyleboutique.shop\/collections\/graphic-novels.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}