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A Family History

by Nina Bunjevac

Fatherland

Hardcover, 160 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $22.95 |

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Author: Nina Bunjevac

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Fatherland is Nina Bunjevac's graphic memoir of her father, a hard-line Serbian nationalist, who was forced to emigrate to Canada in the 1950s.

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In 'Fatherland,' A Daughter Outlines Her Dad's Radicalization

January 25, 2015 • Falling in love with your handsome pen pal, moving overseas to marry him, then finding out he's part of a terrorist organization: That's the Bunjevac family story, told in a new graphic memoir.

In 'Fatherland,' A Daughter Outlines Her Dad's Radicalization

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A Cool, Painstaking Account Of A Difficult Past In 'Fatherland'

January 21, 2015 • Nina Bunjevac tackles two troublesome subjects in Fatherland: Her Serbian nationalist father, and the occasionally violent, extremist history of his country — all in a controlled, icy-cool style.