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Saito, Nazuna.
Subjects
Aging -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Death -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Anxiety -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Japan -- History -- 1945-1989 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Saito, Nazuna.
Aging -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Death -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Anxiety -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Japan -- History -- 1945-1989 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Offshore lightning / Saito Nazuna ; translation by Alexa Frank ; essay by Mitsuhiro Asakawa.
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Saito, Nazuna.
Drawn & Quarterly, 2023.
Call #:
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SAI
Subjects
Aging -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Death -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Anxiety -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Japan -- History -- 1945-1989 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781770465053 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
243 p., xiv pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Reads from right to left; essay reads from left to right.
Translated from the Japanese.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Towards the sunset -- Offshore lightning -- Parakeet god -- Buy dog food, then go home -- Countdown -- A mother of pearl ship -- Gingko -- Upskirt -- In captivity -- House of solitary death -- Saito Nazuna: living to tell the tale / essay by Mitsuhiro Asakawa, translated by Alexa Frank.
Summary:
"Saito Nazuna came to comics late in life, after a long-running stint in editorial illustration for Japanese newspaper Sankei Sports. Her work took her places ranging from the tittilating to the unsavory. These experiences would inform her fiction with the keen sense of humor and unparralelled empathy for faces that otherwise disappear into the crowd. Stories like "Buy Dog Food and Go Home" and "Offshore Lightning" focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, "In Captivity" follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. "Solitary Death Building" documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live." --From publisher.
Genre:
Graphic novels.
Manga novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Other authors:
Frank, Alexa (Translator).
Asakawa, Mitsuhiro.
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