{"product_id":"a-single-match-9781770460096","title":"A Single Match","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new author in D+Q's acclaimed \u003ci\u003egekiga\u003c\/i\u003e line\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head--discussing past times together, memories they have of each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough he touches on many of the same themes as his contemporaries in the field of postwar alternative manga--Yoshihiro Tsuge (\u003ci\u003eL'Homme Sans Talent\u003c\/i\u003e) and Seiichi Hayashi (\u003ci\u003eRed Coloured Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e)--Suzuki uses an ever shifting narrative approach and dashes of surrealist humor to distinguish his work from that of his peers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770460096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 6.60w x 0.76d","brand":"Oji Suzuki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45302234153141,"sku":"9781770460096","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f33063ca-7606-4deb-abed-bd441f5f4078.jpg?v=1744724733","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-single-match-9781770460096","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}