Fatherland : : a Family History

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Bunjevac, Nina
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Bunjevac, Nina	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Bunjevac, Nina	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Bunjevac, Nina	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Bunjevac, Nina	4-week checkout	Due 04-20-2024

Part one. Plan B -- Part two. Exile.
"Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author and her family. In 1975, fearing her husband's growing fanaticism, Nina Bunjevac's mother fled her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina--then only a toddler--and her older sister back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Her husband and Nina's father, Peter, was a die-hard Serbian nationalist who was forced to leave his country in the 1950s. Remaining in Canada, he became involved with a terrorist organization bent on overthrowing the Communist Yugoslav government and attacking its supporters in North America. Then in 1977, while his family was still in Yugoslavia, Peter was killed in an accidental explosion while building a bomb. Through exquisite and haunting black-and-white art, Nina Bunjevac documents the immediate circumstances surrounding her father's death and provides a sweeping account of the former Yugoslavia under fascism and communism, telling an unforgettable true story of how the scars of history are borne by family and nation alike"--Provided by publisher.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A graphic novel story of an immigrant family submitted by ccrose on August 12, 2019, 11:44pm It’s an amazingly written and illustrated story of a family whose father was forced to leave the Balkans because of his sinister terrorist ways. They flee to Canada. His wife and children soon leave him, because of his cruelty . They go back to Europe and rejoin the wife’s parents. The pressure of being a single parent is tremendous in a land where work and food are scarce.
I Was fascinated by the cover drawing of the father, a face like Putin’s, cruelty in his features. The use of the author’s tight, tense pencil drawings show the strain on every face. It’s the pictures that speak the loudest. I recommend this book to anyone who thought graphic novels were just cousins to old-school comic books..

Novel submitted by aamasud on July 20, 2020, 9:38pm Its a story of immigrant family