Pas de retour en Ostalgie #[nn]

From Wanda Hagedorn and Jacek Fras comes this thoughtful Franco-Belgian graphic work published by Steinkis — a title whose very name, "Ostalgie" (the nostalgic longing for the former East), signals a story shaped by divided history. The cover draws you in with a quietly haunting aerial view of a shoreline where several children play at the water's edge, their small figures dwarfed by the sea — and by a dark, jagged barrier that cuts diagonally across the waves toward the right, with seagulls lifting off around it. It's a striking, melancholy image that balances childhood freedom against something immovable and unresolved, making this 2016 release feel both intimate and historically resonant.