Trash Market Av Tadao Tsuge

<p><b>Dark and funny comics from a <i>Garo </i>magazine manga-ka<br></b><br>Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine <i>Garo</i> during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic storytelling and clear, eloquent cartooning. <i>Trash Market </i>brings together six of Tsuge''s compelling, character-driven stories about life in post¿World War II Japan.<br> "Trash Market" and "Gently Goes the Night" touch on key topics for Tsuge: the charming lowlifes of the Tokyo slums and the veterans who found themselves unable to forget the war. "Song of Showa" is an autobiographical piece about growing up in a Tokyo slum during the occupation with an abusive grandfather and an ailing father, and finding brightness in the joyful people of the neighborhood. <i>Trash Market</i> blurs the lines between fiction and reportage; it''s a moving testament to the grittiness of life in Tokyo during the postwar

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