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Goodbye (en Español)

by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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The grandfather of alternative Manga --Time. Tetsu is a witless thug who lives off of his girlfriend. He has no profession, no goal. . .One day he will leave, never to return. Mika is a prostitute tormented by loneliness. When at last she finds a man who wants to stay with her, she still feels empty. Yamaguchi and other businessmen have a bet: the one who can guess the number of traffic fatalities the following week gets the money. But what's the point of money when each accident is a send-off, when each hello is followed by a good-bye. That's the way Tatsumi paints human lives for us in this masterful anthology of short stories: without sentimentality, without moralizing, with both realism and a sensitivity.

Synopsis

The grandfather of alternative Manga --Time. Tetsu is a witless thug who lives off of his girlfriend. He has no profession, no goal. . .One day he will leave, never to return. Mika is a prostitute tormented by loneliness. When at last she finds a man who wants to stay with her, she still feels empty. Yamaguchi and other businessmen have a bet: the one who can guess the number of traffic fatalities the following week gets the money. But what's the point of money when each accident is a send-off, when each hello is followed by a good-bye. That's the way Tatsumi paints human lives for us in this masterful anthology of short stories: without sentimentality, without moralizing, with both realism and a sensitivity.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 2005
Publisher
Public Square Books
Pages
148
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781594971259

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