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Just So Happens
Fumio Obata
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Description for Just So Happens
Hardcover. Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 262 x 21. Weight in Grams: 804.
'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.'
Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.
Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make.
Just So Happens is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224096638
SKU
V9780224096638
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-85
About Fumio Obata
Born in Tokyo, Fumio Obata moved to Britain in 1991. He studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and obtained a masters from the Royal College of Art. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Angoulême. www.fumioobata.co.uk
Reviews for Just So Happens
Just So Happens feels so richly intimate... [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, shopping malls, sushi restaurants: he does them all beautifully. His storytelling, too, is crazily accomplished.
Rachel Cooke
Observer
A beautiful and ... Read more
Rachel Cooke
Observer
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