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A Japanese salaryman decides to ditch everything and go to a remote island to produce salt. A rocker plays with local clubs at night while working as a garbage man by day. An award-winning manga author earns extra income by working at a retirement home to maintain his authorial integrity. On the weekend, a father goes to the nearby swimming pool with his disabled son... Eleven poetic views of ordinary, everyday life in contemporary Japan, far ...

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The whole universe worships the Little Prince, who sees everything 'with his heart' - but no one pays any attention to his cousin, Fat Princess Petronia. In contrast to the angelic blond boy, she's sullen and completely unsentimental. She just doesn't fit the princess cliché at all: She hates pink frills and loves maths. Naturally, the Little Prince has a huge planet while Petronia is stuck on probably the tiniest and most boring planet in the...

The award-winning Portuguese author takes kids on a journey to the origins of the Universe. Particles, stars and dinosaurs, from the Big Bang to the appearance of a man. Very colourful and with fun illustrations, the book goes back in time, about 14 million years ago and gives us answers to many questions that the little ones often ask.

For Frenk Meeuwsen, a drawing is like a Zen garden: wavy lines on snow-white paper. In those lines, he searches for the essence of Japan, for truth, and for himself. His book Zen Without a Master is visual philosophy. How does the sound of one clapping hand sound? This famous riddle from Zen philosophy is simply solved by Meeuwsen: it 'sounds' like applause in sign language for the deaf. Of course he makes a drawing of it, but this solution is...

A book from the established Norwegian author. A moving graphic novel that touches upon themes such as belonging, family and love in a simple and warm way. Protagonists strained relationship with the family is confronted the day her father dies, when she has to come back from Oslo to the village she grew up in. Her simple and yet complicated life is presented from two main perspectives, a narrative and a visual one, aiming both her past and pre...

A graphic novel from the author of 'Bunker' published by Image Comics, awarded as Best Illustrated Australian Book of 2009. A beautifully drawn and provocative, it asks hard questions about the nature and purpose of art and why anyone would choose to become an artist. There is anger, politeness, self-doubt, and white sandy beaches.

In this spell-binding coming-of-age story, a young girl struggles to fit in, subconsciously mimicking her mother's lonely existence. Her interest in the computer game, Lonely Journey, becomes an obsession, but it also becomes a means to reinvent herself. In the virtual reality, she can escape and live out her dreams. Slowly reality and virtuality start to merge.

In this short story collection, Alexis Nolla tells us of great travellers that really existed - or are totally invented, a bit like Bolaño's style.We follow the legendary Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, fathers and sons on a quest to find the Devil's Island, and monsters with PTSD syndrome.Different genres combine in Nolla's unique portrayal of dauntless explorers, solitary hunters, melancholic monsters, frozen noses and brave travelle...

An experimental and disruptive graphic novel about a millennial slacker for whom a daily anecdote becomes an obsession that is the engine of the story. One of the kinds that will kidnap you, and you just have to turn the pages wanting to know what else will happen. Eye-catching, with flat colours and the recognizable playful style of one of the most emerging Spanish illustrators.

The first Spanish edition was sold out in 1, 5 months! Finally in English, from the award winning/ best emerging Spanish author, an illustrator of NY Times with 150K Instagram followers. Saturated colours certainly remind one of George O'Keeffe's paintings of the desert, enigmatic landscapes and atmospheres reminiscent of Giorgio De Chirico's metaphysical paintings. Zenith is a book that gets under one's skin and gets to the reader on a deeper...

One of the best Czech graphic novels of the last decade by an award-winning author. A Lynch-style horror story with the unique multilayered art style that combines backgrounds created from various texts, newspaper cuttings and patterns with the main plot taking place in the foreground.

The story is filled with twists and turns, escapades, absurd humour and wonderful linocuts.' Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi's peppy impish wooden puppet, must encounter many adventures before finally coming to his senses... But what must a plum pit endure before it can become a puppet? This adventurous and comic tale told by a talking plank recounts the winding and capricious life story of a plum pit given to escapades. Screenwriter, comic book cre...

The co-operation of two amazing Czech artists: Eisner Award-nominated illustrator and a widely recognised writer and scriptwriter (who worked with Milos Forman). Based on the award-winning book about the true story, the largest manhunt in the history of the Eastern Bloc during the communist era. Thrilling, dramatic and visually arresting graphic novel in noir style!

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Lokomotywa/IDEOLO jest oparta na tekstach Juliana Tuwima, ktore zostaly zestawione z faktami odnoszacymi sie do wspolczesnych problemow gospodarczych, ekonomicznych, ekologicznych, etycznych. To odslona Tuwima zaangazowanego, odwaznego, bezkompromisowego w poruszaniu tak trudnych tematow, jak tozsamosc narodowa, rasizm, antysemityzm. W pociagu jada Zydzi, kibole, zolnierze, geje i lesbijki, hipsterzy oraz zwierzeta, przewozone sa rozne materialy.

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