Irmina

“Irmina spans 1934 through to the 1980s. Yelin found a box of her grandmother’s memorabilia—photos, letters, diaries—and based the book on that woman’s life story. And it belongs to that evergreen German subgenre of ‘What did you do in the war?’ As Yelin writes in her sensitive preface, ‘What I really discovered in that box was a question — a disturbing question about how a woman could change so radically. Why would she turn into a person who did not ask questions, who looked the other way, one of the countless passive accomplices of her time?'” Read more...

The Best European Graphic Novels

Edward Gauvin, Translator