LEADER 00000cam 2200733Ia 4500 001 ocn921864073 003 OCoLC 003 LT 008 150921s2016 enka 6 000 1 eng d 020 1910593109 020 9781910593103 041 1 eng|hger 082 04 741.5943|223 084 Heef.05 092 0 Serie|bengelska 100 1 Yelin, Barbara,|d1977-|eauthor,|eillustrator 245 10 Irmina /|cBarbara Yelin ; afterword by Alexander Korb 250 English edition 264 London :|bSelfmadehero,|c2016 300 285 pages :|bchiefly color illustrations ;|c27 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 520 In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina that prosperity will only be possible through the betrayal of her ideals. In the award-winning Irmina, Barbara Yelin presents a troubling drama about the tension between integrity and social advancement, reflecting with compassion and intelligence on the complicity that results from the choice, conscious or otherwise, to look away 648 7 1939-1945|2fast 650 0 Nazis|zGermany|vComic books, strips, etc 650 0 National socialism|zGermany|vComic books, strips, etc 650 0 Young women|zGermany|vComic books, strips, etc 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|zGermany|vFiction 650 7 Graphic novels.|2fast 650 7 Andra världskriget 1939-1945|2sao 651 7 Germany 655 7 Comic books, strips, etc.|2fast 655 7 Fiction.|2fast 655 7 Skönlitteratur|2saogf 655 7 Serieromaner|2saogf 655 7 Tecknade serier|2saogf 700 1 Korb, Alexander Martin 907 00 160523
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