Manga "How Do You Live?" by Genzaburou Yoshino (author/writer) and Shoichi Haga (illustrator) 8 Magazine House)

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Genzaburou Yoshino (author/writer) Shoichi Haga (illustrator)
Publisher: Magazine House
A5 size, 210mm length x 148mm width, 320 pages
Regular price 1,300 yen + tax
ISBN978-4-8387-2947-0

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Specification Continuing to seek what it means to be a human being
The story of Koper and his uncle.
It continues to shine even 80 years after its publication.
This historical masterpiece has been adapted into a manga for the first time!

Since its publication in 1937,
It has been read by many people,
Genzaburou Yoshino's masterpiece "How Do You Live?"
How should we live as humans?
While I was enjoying reading
This book is written to be considered natural.
Of course, children
For many adults
It has been received with sympathy.
Courage, bullying, poverty, inequality, education...
The theme of life that has not changed from the past to the present
Face it sincerely
The main character, Koper, and his uncle.
Their attitudes contain words that serve as guidelines for how to live.
Many are shown.
Such a timeless masterpiece,
Keeping the quality of the original intact,
It has now been revived in manga form.
Of course, for first-time readers,
Even those who have read it several times
Once you have it in your hands,
An opportunity to reexamine life
This is a book I would like you to read.

table of contents
1. Strange experience
Perspectives (Uncle's Node)
2. Brave Friend Part 1
3. Brave Friend, Part 2
On the experience of truth (Uncle's notebook)
4. Newton's apple and powdered milk
On human connections (Uncle's notebook)
5. Poor Friend
As a human being (Uncle's notebook)
5. Napoleon and the Four Boys
What kind of person is a great man? (Uncle's notebook)
7. What happened on a snowy day
9. Memories of the stone steps
On human suffering, mistakes and greatness (Uncle's notebook)
10. Triumphant Return (working title)
10. Spring Morning (tentative title)


Author Profile
Genzaburou Yoshino (author/writer)
Editor and children's literature writer. 1899 (Meiji 32) - 1981 (Showa 56).
He was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine "Sekai" and also contributed to the establishment of the Iwanami Children's Library.

Shoichi Haga (Illustration)
Manga artist. In 2010, he won the 27th MANGA OPEN Encouragement Award for "Infidelity Boy."
In 2011, he serialized "Eraser Life" in Morning and released it as a book in 2014. His latest publication is "Hiru no Daddy is Shining."

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