Cigarette Girl
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603093826 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Understanding Japan IlanaWD A book to read by anyone interested to understand the contemporary Japan. The collection of e-comics reveals different aspects of the young Japanese, revealing the ways in which ancestral restrictions and tabus are translated into everyday modern-times rituals. Many of the issues are still of actuality, after all these years and changes underwent at the global level, hence the relevance of the reading.Disclaimer: Book offered by the publisher via NetGalley.com. innate disgust, ongoing body issues Cigarette Girl by Mashiko Matsumoto is a free anthology of e-comics given to me by NetGalley that I read in early May, shortly before seeing my mom for an early Mother's Day.Cigarette Girl describes a New Japan, a new person who observes and interacts with their world and other people with boredom, idleness, surprise, innate disgust, ongoing body issues, and suppressed desire.
His shy, uncertain heroes face broken hearts, changing families, money troubles, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition, but with a whimsy and lightness of touch that is Matsumoto's trademark. Welcome to the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as "gekiga." Originally published in 1974, these eleven stories now form the first English-language collection of Matsumoto's mature work. With a new introduction by Matsumoto's well-known colleague, the late Yoshi