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A Single Match
Oji Suzuki
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Description for A Single Match
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Black and White Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly Canada
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770460096
SKU
V9781770460096
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Ref
99-11
About Oji Suzuki
Oji Suzuki was born in 1949 in Nagoya, Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 1967 and within two years his first short stories were published in the avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo. Throughout the 1970s and '80s at least ten collections of his short stories were published. Suzuki has produced short films and has written and drawn children's books.
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