The Man Without TalentYoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobsused camera salesman, ferryman, stone collectorhoping to find success among the hucksters,

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices

critical task of dealing frontally with the metropolitan culture

Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language

to 'jin-jin'

through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics

and how the commodification of religion impacts people’s lives

She’s thirty and beautiful

and the building of the Great Wall

"Taking a truly long view extending from prehistory to the present

it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times' The Nation

Hardback with dustjackt

lost souls and hopeless dreamers all