Heart of Thomas

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By Moto Hagio

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Set in a boys' boarding school in Germany during the late 20th century, Heart of Thomas begins with the tragic death of 14-year-old Thomas Werner after he sends a poignant letter to a schoolmate. This complex and compelling shojo manga explores themes of friendship, loss, and emotional turmoil, inspired by the 1960 film Les Amities Particulieres. Since its original release in 1974, it has remained a legendary and enigmatic classic.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic shojo manga, psychological drama, and literary graphic novels that explore complex emotional themes within a historical setting.

This complex and compelling shojo manga ranks as one of the all-time greats since its original 1974 inception.

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The setting is a boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the latter 20th century. Fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, tragic letter to a schoolmate. Thus begins the legendary and enigmatic Heart of Thomas.

Inspired by Jean Delannoy's 1960 film, Les Amities Particulieres, the result of this effort was a complex and compelling shojo manga that ranks as one of the all-time greats since its original inception in 1974.

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World Literature Today notes that Moto Hagio is one of the most undertranslated mangaka despite her profound impact during a crucial developmental phase of manga in the 1970s. This work exemplifies the depth and span of her legacy, making it a vital read for fans of influential graphic novels.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781606995518

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 October 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 176.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 1401g

Pages: 528

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About the Author

Moto Hagio was born May 12, 1949, in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture. She is one of a group of women born that year that broke into the male-dominated manga industry and pioneered the shojo (girls') movement. Hagio's Heart of Thomas, inspired by the 1964 film A Special Friendship, was one of the early entries in the shonen-ai (boys in love) subgenre. Her major works include A Drunken Dream, A, A', They Were Eleven, and Otherworld Barbara. She's won the Japanese Medal of Honor with the Purple Ribbon (the first woman comics creator to do so), received Japan's SF Grand Prize, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award Grand Prize, and an Inkpot Award, among other accolades. She lives in the Saitama Prefecture. Rachel Thorn is from in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. She is a cultural anthropologist, writer, and an associate professor in the manga department at Kyoto Seika University. Her translations include the New York Times Best-Seller Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano and Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

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