Nina Bunjevaz BEZIMENA

Refusing to shy away from the morally grotesque, Bezimena seeks to discover what compels people to commit acts of evil. Drawing on her own traumatic memories of sexual assault, Nina Bunjevac explores the delusional mind of a sexual predator.

Told through a noirish lens, Bezimena is the story of a man who develops a disturbing obsession with a former classmate, steadily losing his grasp on reality. A masterful cartoonist, Bunjevac takes a deep dive into the man's warped psyche, conjuring an eerie, unreal world filled with mesmerizing fever dreams and shocking acts of sexual violence. Bezimena is a stunning graphic novel by an assured voice in comics.

Published by Fantagraphics, 2019

248 b/w pages

Hardback

8.7" × 10.8"

"Bunjevac's work is stunning to look at, with elegant full-page illustrations, painstakingly crosshatched and stippled to resemble woodcuts or antique photographs." Publishers Weekly

"A disturbing yet elegant yarn, told in simple, exquisite full-page drawings made complex through elaborate stippling." Booklist

"The black and white Bezimena is colored by trauma and yearning. ... This uncanny book provides a grim map to the ever-shadowy process of recovery." NPR Books

"As elegant as it is shocking." Vanity Fair Italy

"Bunjevac deftly crafts a gripping noirish, Nabokovian tale, by turns sensual, surreal, and harrowing, that turns the male gaze inside-out." Midwest Book Review