{"product_id":"a-single-match","title":"A Single Match","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New Author In D+QS Acclaimed Gekiga Line In 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 DoesnT 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. Although He Touches On Many Of The Same Themes As His Contemporaries In The Field Of Postwar Alternative Manga-Yoshihiro Tsuge (LHomme Sans Talent) And Seiichi Hayashi (Red Coloured Elegy)-Suzuki Uses An Ever Shifting Narrative Approach And Dashes Of Surrealist Humor To Distinguish His Work From That Of His Peers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45885980049606,"sku":"DADAX1770460098","price":29.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/714bfCH1_hS.jpg?v=1779889723","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/a-single-match","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}