A Drifting Life
$88.20
- Paperback
840 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2025
Summary
The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine.
In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d’Angouleme, and was adapted into a feature film that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses his life long obsession with comics as a framework to tell his life story incisively and unflinchingly. He deftly weaves a complex story that encompasses Jap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770468139 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770468137 |
| Author: | Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Taro Nettleton |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 840 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 58mm x 167mm x 222mm |
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Critics Review
“Tatsumi had that magic touch all great storytellers have, illuminating many corners with economical light, telling simple tales that unfolded to reveal many subtexts, implications and messages. He used and abused the manga tradition, repurposing the format to interrogate a national culture, with real human characters who were bored, horny, frustrated, and lonely.” —The Guardian
“[A Drifting Life] manages to be, all at once, an insider’s history of manga, a mordant cultural tour of post–Hiroshima Japan and a scrappy portrait of a struggling artist…It’s among this genre’s signal achievements…It’s as if someone had taken a Haruki Murakami novel and drawn, beautifully and comprehensively, in its margins.”” —The New York Times
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Born in 1935, Yoshihiro Tatsumi began writing and drawing comics for a sophisticated adult readership in a realistic style he called Gekiga. He has influenced generations of cartoonists and lives in Japan.
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