Book overview
Eisner Award nominee for Best U.S. Edition of International Material 2026A New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2025 for AdultsNamed a Best Graphic Novel of 2025 by The Washington Post and ForbesA Comix Experience Best New Graphic Novel of the Month
Winner of Germany's top graphic novel award, the Max and Moritz Prize for Best Debut 2024
"A comic--and esoteric--gangster story, full of bad choices and inevitable violence." - Kirkus
"This tale of low-level criminality gone horribly wrong will appeal to fans of David Lapham's Stray Bullets and Jason's I Killed Adolf Hitler." - Publishers Weekly
If Tarantino met Murakami in Germany--this multiple-prize-winning graphic novel set in six adjoining apartments is touching, intricate and very, very violent.
When three sleazy gangsters storm into an apartment in search of a stolen urn, they set off a series of unfortunate events that threatens everyone in the building. As blood begins to pool, it becomes clear that this story is about more than the senseless violence. What is good and what is evil? Who decides who should die? And does anyone really know their neighbors?
Theft and poison and so much shooting: and yet, on muted and somber pages, heartless villains become vulnerable heroes--before descending to cruelty once again. In this graphic novel that swept awards for best debut in Germany and Switzerland, a classic gangster comedy of errors grows into a meditation on loneliness, morality, and even love.