by Fumio Obata (Author)
'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 a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata's drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 13 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 022409663X
ISBN 13: 9780224096638
Book Overview: A debut graphic novel of delicate beauty about outsiders and what we mean when we say 'home'.