Irmina

Barbara Yelin’s Irmina, published by Actes Sud from 2014 onward, is a single-issue graphic novel that traces the true story of a young German woman in the 1930s who, after studying in London, returns to a Nazi-era Berlin and must navigate the moral compromises of that dark period. Written and drawn entirely by Yelin, the book is a quietly devastating exploration of complicity, ambition, and the choices that shape a life under fascism. It stands as a powerful, intimate work of historical fiction that resonates beyond its specific setting.