Ginseng Roots

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780571386611
  • Dimensions: 165 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 08 May 2025
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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AN OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH
A GUARDIAN BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR

'A modern classic.' GUARDIAN
'It just blew me away.' JEFF LEMIRE
'Beautiful.' ROLLING STONE
'A masterpiece.' JOE SACCO

FROM THE BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BLANKETS AND HABIBI

From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a long-awaited new graphic memoir. Ginseng Roots follows Craig and his siblings, who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms. Following an injury, Craig rediscovers this herb, central to Chinese medicine, and embarks on an extraordinary journey from his midwestern roots to north-east China.

Suffused in a vibrant earthy palette, Ginseng Roots masterfully blends memoir, travelogue and cultural history to explore and illuminate ideas of creativity, doubt, healing and family.

Craig Thompson's graphic novels include Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Space Dumplins and Habibi, an Observer Graphic Novel of the Month and a New York Times bestseller, which was described by Neel Mukherjee as 'a landmark publication'. His work has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards and a Rudolph-Dirks-Award.

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