{"product_id":"red-snow-susumu-katsumata-9781897299869","title":"Red Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN AWARD-WINNING BOOK FROM A LEGENDARY MANGA-KA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContinuing D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of \u003ci\u003eGekiga\u003c\/i\u003e, this collection of short stories is drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by the legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the premodern Japanese countryside of the author's youth, a slightlymagical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers. While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth, the universal fundamental emotions of the human heart prevail at the center of these tender stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatsumata began publishing comic strips in the legendary avantgarde magazine \u003ci\u003eGaro\u003c\/i\u003e (which also published his contemporaries Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Yoshiharu Tsuge) in 1965 while enrolled in the Faculty of Science in Tokyo. He abandoned his studies in 1971 to become a professional comics artist, alternating the short humorous strips upon which he built his reputation with stories of a more personal nature in which he tenderly depicted the lives of peasants and farmers from his native region. In 2006, Katsumata won the 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize for \u003ci\u003eRed Snow\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susumu Katsumata\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1897299869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781897299869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.60w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/2009 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/23\/2009","brand":"Susumu Katsumata","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991174021375,"sku":"9781897299869","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b75eebc4-9715-469b-82ff-6f255ba8d06d.jpg?v=1683308860","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-snow-susumu-katsumata-9781897299869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}