Nirvana is Here - Couverture souple

Ross, Mikael

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798875002649

Editeur : Fantagraphics, 2026

Synopsis

Two German siblings, 12-year-old Tam and 14-year-old Dennis Nguyen, encounter a young Vietnamese woman in trouble in a flea market parking lot. When Tam's spy movie-obsessed schoolmate, Alex, discovers an abandoned backpack with a photo of a happy couple with Tam's address on the back, it will lead the two to discover a severed finger. Worried, Tam searches for the desperate woman, aided by her reluctant brother, and eventually finds Hoa Bin, who escaped from her kidnapper - who's still tracking her down. Drawn to Hoa Bin, Tam vows to save her - even if she has to break her stern-but-loving mom's rules, dodge the bad guys in wild chases through the Berlin streets, and combine the forces of Marina, the Nguyens' tough-chick neighbour, Jutta, an elderly retired actress, a rollerblading girl gang, and many others to do so. In Ross's empathetic, loose-but-controlled lines, cartoonishly expressive kids interact against and within the realistically depicted urban environments, given texture and grit by screen-tones. Nirvana is Here is a contemporary crime thriller that has adventure, diasporic, coming-of-age, and love story elements, set in Berlin's working-class Lichtenberg district against a backdrop of very current social issues.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Mikael Ross is a Berlin-based cartoonist and tailor. Ross was the recipient of the very first graphic novel scholarship from Berlin's Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Nika Knight is a writer and translator of German literature living in St. Louis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798875002649
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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