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Offshore Lightning

Af: Alexa Frank, Saito Nazuna Engelsk Paperback

Offshore Lightning

Af: Alexa Frank, Saito Nazuna Engelsk Paperback
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Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar Japan

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew “In Captivity” (2012) and “Solitary Death Building” (2015)—both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito’s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas.

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.

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Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar Japan

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew “In Captivity” (2012) and “Solitary Death Building” (2015)—both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito’s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas.

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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9781770465053
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1770465057
Kategori: Graphic novels: Biografier, dokumentarer & faglitteratur
Udg. Dato: 11 jul 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 157mm
Højde: 212mm
Forlag: Drawn and Quarterly
Oplagsdato: 11 jul 2023
Forfatter(e): Alexa Frank, Saito Nazuna
Forfatter(e) Alexa Frank, Saito Nazuna

Kategori Graphic novels: Biografier, dokumentarer & faglitteratur

ISBN-13 9781770465053

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 384

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 157mm

Højde 212mm

Udg. Dato 11 jul 2023

Oplagsdato 11 jul 2023

Forlag Drawn and Quarterly