"In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At 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 Hitler's 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 betrayal of her ideals"--Back cover.
year: 2016
call number/section: 741.5
subjects: man-woman relationships, fiction, london (england), intellectual life, fiction, historical comics, graphic novels