Irmina

About this book

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 Hitlers 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. Based on a true story this moving and perceptive graphic novel perfectly conjures the oppressive atmosphere of wartime Germany reflecting with compassion and intelligence on the complicity that results from the choice conscious or otherwise to look away.