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Summary:

"The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: 'To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand'"--Publisher's web site.

Author/Creator:

Hagio, Moto, 1949- , author, artist

Contributors:

Thorn, Matt , translator, author of introduction

Groth, Gary , editor

Ong, Tony (Book designer) , book designer

White, Preston , restorationist

Baresh, Paul , restorationist

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Translated from Japanese.

Main Work:

Tōma no shinzō [by Hagio, M.] (English)

Subjects:

Teenage boys — Death — Comic books, strips, etc.

Boarding schools — Germany — Comic books, strips, etc.

Gays — Identity — Comic books, strips, etc.

Teenage boys

Death

Boarding schools

Gays — Identity

Gays

Germany

Genres:

Graphic novels

Comic books, strips, etc.

General Notes:

Item reads manga-style, right to left ; introduction reads Western style.

Physical Description:

515 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

PN6790.J33 H25313 2012

ISBNs:

9781606995518
1606995510

OCLC Numbers:

824610422