{"title":"Books by Yoshihiro Tatsumi","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781770460782","title":"Good-Bye","description":"Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi's prolific artist's vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt as a result of World War II: in one story a man devotes twenty years to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, as always it is Tatsumi's characters that bear his hallmark, muddling through isolated despair and fleeting pleasure to live out their darkly nuanced lives.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304038609269,"sku":"9781770460782","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770460782_f0c22f11-674a-4057-aec6-fcddff742b98.jpg?v=1786024924"},{"product_id":"9781770460775","title":"Abandon the Old in Tokyo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbandon the Old in Tokyo \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi's maturation as a storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young sewer cleaner's girlfriend has a miscarriage and leaves him when he proves incapable of finding higher-paying work. When a factory worker loses his hand on the job, the parallels between him and his pet monkey prove startling and significant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312785174901,"sku":"9781770460775","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770460775_ab68f084-c7b4-4d80-a1a6-aeeb2ca885fd.jpg?v=1786024923"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-yoshihiro-tatsumi.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}