NOV26P142 - EAN 9781770469013
by (W) Yoko Kondo (CT) David Boyd
A melancholic portrait of Tokyo at the edge of collapse during the final days of World War II, by a celebrated Garo cartoonist. Adapted from Ango Sakaguchi’s famous historical fiction/romance writing, the graphic novel follows two people bound not by love, but by proximity to ruin.A former sex worker, she is emotionally sealed off, incapable of feeling pleasure in any familiarway. A writer, he is numb and adrift, and drawn to her detachment from the unraveling world. Together, they have made an agreement: they will stay together until the war ends—or they die. Drifting through bomb shelters, burned-out streets, and nights heavy with smoke, desire, and resignation, terror becomes a strange fascination; destruction takes on an erotic charge. There is something beautiful, almost intoxicating, about the end.KondÅ’s minimalist manga style heightens the void—thin lines, empty rooms, distant gazes. Translated by award-winning David Boyd (Breasts and Eggs), this long-awaited release will be an instant classic.
Rated T+
Yoko Kondo was born in 1957 in Niigata, Japan. Her first comics were published in Garo Magazine when she was just 22 years old, and she has continued to work in gekiga, shojo, josei, and seinen manga over the past fifty years. Kondo worked as an assistant to Murasaki Yamada, and attended high school with Rumiko Takahashi. She has been nominated twice for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and received the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival as well as the Excellence Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association. Her comics have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. One Woman and the War is her first graphic novel to be translated into English
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Categoria: Books: graphic novels (in preordine)
Uscita: 19/01/27
Ordinabile fino al 21/12/26
By Yoko Kondo.
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Data di uscita: 19/01/27
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