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‘I still remember arriving in the city for the first time… It wasn’t easy… But here, London, is my home.’Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make.Just So Happens is a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata’s drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy.
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| Weight | 0.824 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 20.5 × 26.3 cm |
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| language1 | |
| Pages | 160 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2014-2-13 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 022409663X |
| About The Author | Born in Tokyo, Fumio Obata moved to Britain in 1991. He studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and obtained a masters from the Royal College of Art. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Angoulême.www.fumioobata.co.uk |
Just So Happens feels so richly intimate… [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, shopping malls, sushi restaurants: he does them all beautifully. His storytelling, too, is crazily accomplished. | |
| Other text | A beautiful and observant graphic novel. |
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