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.
Nora Krug is a German-American author, illustrator and associate professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Guardian and le Monde Diplomatique, and in a number of anthologies. A recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, her books are included in the Library of Congress and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Her illustrations have been recognized with three gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and a Silver Cube from the New York Art Directors Club. Krug''s work has been exhibited internationally, and her animations shown at the Sundance Film Festival.>
Nous ne sommes pas plus intelligents que ceux qui, au XXe siècle, ont vu s'effondrer la démocratie en Europe et le totalitarisme s'y répandre. Mais nous avons un avantage:nous pouvons apprendre de leurs erreurs.Timothy Snyder livre ici un guide de la résistance. À travers vingt chapitres, il propose des clefs essentielles pour lutter contre les dérives de l'autoritarisme et défendre nos libertés citoyennes face à la montée des extêmes en Occident. Dans cette édition illustrée, l'artiste multiprimée Nora Krug offre, grâce à son univers graphique unique, un reflet saisissant de notre mémoire collective.«Il n'existe pas de livre plus concis, plus profond ni plus essentiel sur le sujet. Le chef-d'oeuvre de Timothy Snyder est un rappel saisissant de la myriade de formes insidieuses que prend l'oppression. Désormais magnifiquement illustré par Nora Krug, De la tyrannie met en lumi!ère ce à quoi nous devons être attentifs et ce contre quoi nous devons lutter» J.J. Abrams, réalisateur.