![]() ![]() Howard prefers to keep his head down and not challenge the racist abuse thrown at him while in London, but he goes on to enter politics in Barbados and helps forge a new and improved future for his country and its people. Irmina is honest and stands up for Howard when he is racially abused, and yet, from the beginning of the novel, she seems disturbingly unconcerned about the developing Nazi regime and what it might mean for everyone. ![]() None of them can be explained simply, and they are in many ways contradictory. The story itself is well-told, with interesting and complex characters. The story itself is well-told, with interesting and complex characters ![]() When her contact with Howard is broken, Irmina finds herself trying to survive and thrive under a Nazi regime that leads her to look away from its horrors. Their blossoming relationship ends however, when financial difficulties force Irmina to return home. There, she meets Howard, one of the first Black students studying at Oxford University. The book follows Irmina, a young German woman who heads to London in the mid-1930s seeking a career and independence. Irmina by Barbara Yelin (translated from the German by Michael Waaler) is a graphic novel inspired by the true story of Yelin’s grandmother. Content warnings: mentions of racism, anti-semitism, Nazism, the Holocaust, World War II ![]()
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