Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
By Nora Krug
(Scribner)
Nora Krug’s Belonging is both uncomfortable and familiar. The intricately drawn graphic memoir spans decades and continents while the author uncovers her family’s involvement in Nazi-occupied Germany. The story starts by following her uncle’s enrollment in the Nazi military when he was a teenager. But he died less than a year later in Italy. Oracle solaris pdf. Trying to uncover some truth about his role and motivation, Krug discovers that parts of her mother’s family were also soldiers for the Third Reich. As she reads letters and talks to family, she learns that their participation was never clear-cut. Woven throughout the narrative are questions about the responsibility of descendants whose ancestors participated in horrendous atrocities, willingly or not. Krug doesn’t answer these directly, but leaves space for both healing and reckoning to fill that gap.

Nora Krug (born 1977) is a German–American author and illustrator. Her graphic novel Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, 2019 Schubart-Literaturpreis, and 2019 Evangelischer Buchpreis. 'Belonging' is a scrapbook of beautiful illustrations Nora Krug created to share her personal search for 'heimat,' a German term describing a place that offers the immediate sense of familiarity. Heimat often refers to the actual landscape where one was born.

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K callan knives out. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home was released October 2, 2018.
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