A Drifting Life

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The epic autobiography of a manga master

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye―at the start created just about forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever―the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North The united states as a precursor of as of late’s graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years within the making, beginning along with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as a part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II.

Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 1960, Tatsumi’s stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father’s financial burdens and his parents’ failing marriage, his jealous brother’s deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him within the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following within the considerable footsteps of his idol, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo’s Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)―with whom Tatsumi ultimately was a peer and, every now and then, a stylistic rival. As along with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine.

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