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A new author in D+Q's acclaimed "gekiga" line In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head--discussing past times together, memories they have of each other. Although he touches on many of the same themes as his contemporaries in the field of postwar alternative manga--Yoshihiro Tsuge ("L'Homme Sans Talent") and Seiichi Hayashi ("Red Coloured Elegy")--Suzuki uses an ever shifting narrative approach and dashes of surrealist humor to distinguish his work from that of his peers.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Graphic novels Graphic novels: Manga

• Full title: Single Match
• Author: Oji Suzuki
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781770460096
• ISBN: 1770460098
• ID: 04249305
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 165 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2011

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