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Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Paperback • 2012 • English

Abandon the Old in Tokyo

By Yoshihiro Tatsumi

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About the book

"Abandon the Old in Tokyo "continues 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. Many 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. A young sewer cleaner's girlfriend has a miscarriage and leaves him when he proves incapable of finding higher-paying wor...Show more

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ISBN

9781770460775

Publisher

Drawn and Quarterly

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Format

Paperback

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