A Single Match by Oji Suzuki Hardback Book

A Single Match by Oji Suzuki Hardback Book

Garo’s gekiga-ka Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a shifting narritive and splashes of surrealist humor. 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. Suzuki masterfully plumbs the dissolute depths of the human condition-neediness, dissapointment, and betrayal. He litterally bathes his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveals as much as they obscure. Suzuki is one of the most talented and poetic alternative cartoonists in Japan. A single Match is his first English story collection

 

ISBN-13: 978-1770460096

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Dimensions: 22.3cm x 16.5cm

Cover: Hardcover

Pages: 240

Colour: Black & White

Writer / Artist / Cover Artist: Oji Suzuki

 

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Manufacturer Drawn & Quarterly Brand Graphic Novels Pennies 80 Dimensions 22.3cm x 16.5cm Preorder No