Haruki Murakami manga stories

Jean-Christophe Deveney, 1977-

Book - 2023

"For the first time in English, the work of master Haruki Murakami is available in manga form. In this collection you'll find striking full-color adaptations of these iconic short stories: Super-frog saves Tokyo -- A few days after an earthquake, Katagirl-san finds a giant frog in his home. The frog promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri-san must help him. Is this real, or a dream? Where I'm likely to find it -- A woman's husband goes missing and she hires a detective to find him. As the detective picks up clues about the man's whereabouts, he reflects on the meaning of his own life. Birthday girl -- A woman tells a friend the story of a surreal encounter on her twentieth birthday with the own...er of the restaurant where she works. The seventh man -- A man who is deeply scarred by the depth of his childhood friend must find a way to deal with this trauma as an adult."-- Back cover.

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2nd Floor Comics New MANGA/Murakami (NEW SHELF) Due Nov 30, 2024
Subjects
Genres
Short stories, Japanese Translations into English
Graphic novels
manga (comic books)
short stories
Manga
Short stories
Graphic novel adaptations
Comics (Graphic works)
Published
Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd 2023.
Language
English
French
Corporate Author
Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd
Main Author
Jean-Christophe Deveney, 1977- (adapter)
Corporate Author
Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd (translator)
Other Authors
Pmgl, 1980- (artist), Haruki Murakami, 1949- (-)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Work reads from left to right.
Physical Description
142 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
ISBN
9784805317648
  • Super-frog saves Tokyo
  • Where I'm likely to find it
  • Birthday girl
  • The seventh man.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this adept international collaboration, a French comics team transforms four fantasy-tinted short stories by Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) into comics, bringing his vertiginous imagination to life. A mild-mannered assistant bank manager is visited in "Super Frog Saves Tokyo Girl" by a giant Tolstoy-loving frog who recruits him to help stop an earthquake; a tough-talking volunteer detective searches for a woman's missing husband in the digressive noir pastiche "Where I'm Likely to Find It"; "Birthday Girl" centers on a waitress and the celebratory wish she receives from her peculiar, reclusive boss; and a man is haunted by his childhood memory of a deadly typhoon in "The Seventh Man." "What we see with our eyes is not necessarily reality," one character warns, as these dreamlike narratives shift precipitously between reality and fantasy, the transparent and the opaque. PMGL's art amplifies disorientation, expanding and contracting the space within panels and pushing the off-kilter character designs just past the point of typical cartoon exaggeration. He switches up art styles between stories and sometimes from scene to scene. This is a must-read for Murakami buffs and a quirky invitation into the writer's perspective and preoccupations for newcomers. (Oct.)

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