Liveright Publishing Corporation Fatherland - A Family History

Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi s Persepolis and Joe Sacco s Palestine, Nina Bunjevac s Fatherland is a searing work of graphic nonfiction that tells the 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, Bunjevac s mother flees 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 diehard Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country in the 1950s. Remaining in Canada, Peter became involved with a terrorist organization bent on overthrowing the Communist Yugoslav government and attacking its supporters in North America. Through exquisitely haunting black-and white art, Fatherland tells an unforgettable true story of how the scars of history are borne by family and nation alike."