I Nina - by Daniel Chmielewski (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

I Nina is a graphic novel adaptation of Nobel and Man Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's book Anna in the Tombs of the World. The story is based on the ancient Sumerian myth of Goddess Innana's journey into the Underworld. Daniel Chmielewski deftly transports the narrative into a near-future dystopia where humanity survives in a hermetically sealed multi-level world. As society slowly decays under a 'social currency' regime, Nina, 'no-one, ' becomes the focus of long-buried revolutionary energies that could change everything. Daniel's 'must be seen to be believed' art was awarded the Polish Comics Society Prize for Best Artist. Evoking classic works of Enki Bilal and Moebius, I Nina is a provocative science-fiction graphic novel for the present age.

Review Quotes

I, Nina won the Polish Comics Society Prize for Best Artist.

"The author intricately arranges new elements into Tokarczuk's narrative, creating a philosophical epic about love and sacrifice, power and war, urban utopias and revolutionary fever." -- Polityka

About the Author

Daniel Chmielewski is a comic artist and scriptwriter. He was awarded the Polish Comics Society Prize for Best Artist for I Nina. His most recent work is an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. His works have been widely published internationally.

Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a full-time translator of Polish literature. Her published translations include fiction by several of Poland's leading contemporary novelists, including Primeval and Other Stories by Olga Tokarczuk and The Last Supper by Pawel Huelle, for which she won the Found in Translation Award.