Nirvana Is Here brings Mikael Ross’s Berlin crime story to English readers

Fantagraphics publishes a Berlin thriller about siblings drawn into a dangerous rescue.

Mikael Ross’s Nirvana Is Here is listed for publication on October 20 by Fantagraphics. The publisher’s current product page confirms October 20 for the 352-page black-and-white paperback, translated by Nika Beauchamp. Set in Berlin’s working-class Lichtenberg district, the crime story follows Vietnamese German

siblings Tâm and Dennis Nguyen. A chance encounter with a distressed young woman, followed by the discovery of an abandoned backpack and a severed finger, pulls them into a rescue attempt. The woman has escaped a kidnapper who is still pursuing her. Twelve-year-old Tâm and her reluctant fourteen-year-old brother draw

on an unconventional network of neighbours and allies. Ross combines the chase with coming-of-age, family and diasporic themes, grounding the adventure in the city around them. Image credit: Mikael Ross / Fantagraphics.

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