Jirō Taniguchi Boeken

"'Because it's there.' George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this in reply to the question 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?' On his third expedition in June 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared on the North-East ridge during their ascent, having been sighted only a few hundred metres from the summit. In 1993, in a small Nepalese store, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mt Everest, stumbles across an old camera -- a Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak Special. Could it be Mallory's camera? Did it hold the secret of whether Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit?"--Publisher's web site.

Climbing is all I have, I climb.' Photographer Fukamachi is visiting Habu's home when the felon Mohan turns up demanding the missing Kodak but is foiled when his earlier captor shoots and wounds him. Habu admits that he took the camera from Mallory's body but that there was no film found. He releases the camera to Fukamachi's charge on the understanding that he can only use it after Habu completes his solo climb of Everest's South West face. But Fukamachi is going with him!'

With what may be Mallory's camera found and lost, photographer Fukamachi delves deeper into the life of the mysterious character Bikha Sanp - the "Venomous Snake" - convinced that he is, in reality, the legendary mountaineer ouji Habu. the more he digs the more he reveals of the lives of both Habu and his constant nemesis Tsuneo Hase as they each struggle against their own limitations and the perceived achievements of hte other. It is a tale of obession to succeed, to be the first - always. But as he penetrates the darkness of these men's psyches he finds himself being laid bare and bound to the mountain in this raw human drama.

KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new 'mother'. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father.

With what may be Mallory's camera found and lost, photographer Fukamachi delves deeper into the life of the mysterious character Bikha Sanp - the "Venomous Snake" - convinced that he is, in reality, the legendary mountaineer ouji Habu. the more he digs the more he reveals of the lives of both Habu and his constant nemesis Tsuneo Hase as they each struggle against their own limitations and the perceived achievements of hte other. It is a tale of obession to succeed, to be the first - always. But as he penetrates the darkness of these men's psyches he finds himself being laid bare and bound to the mountain in this raw human drama.

Hiroshi Nakahara is a forty-something salary man returning to Tokyo from an intense business trip when he is catapulted back into his fourteen year-old life and body whilst retaining all the character and experience of the adult. Will he change his past or be forever condemned to relive each painful moment? That fateful day his father disappeared without explanation, the death of his mother ... would he marry his childhood sweetheart and never see his wife and daughters again? Master manga-ka Taniguchi at his most powerful.

We are delighted to be able to relaunch and enlarge Taniguchi's most cherished title. A book in which nothing happens but everything occurs. The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan often silent, usually alone with his vivid dreams that let time stand still. Join him as he climbs a tree in bare feet, takes time out to observe the birds, plays in the puddles after the rain and returns a shell to the sea. Contains 4 extra stories and 28 pages in colour. Original sense of reading.

May 2013 and a young Japanese designer ends a group tour to the 31st Barcelona International Comic Fair with a solo visit to Paris, intending to visit many of the museums and galleries of the French capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering illness in a foreign land, deprived of any familiar attention or care. When the fever abates a little he tries to make up for lost time with a whirlwind tour starting with the greatest of them all - The Louvre.

Exiled from Japan during the Boshin War in 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold, defeated samurais Hikosaburo and Manzo eventually settle in Crow territory in North America. One day out hunting, Hikosaburo encounters a young native female who has just given birth hidden in the scrub, and who is on the run from white traders! Saved from the traders by the chief of the Oglalas, they soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures, fighting alongside their new brothers in their struggle against the invaders.

Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them. Surrounded by wolves and fighting for their survival, two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion... 1920s Japan and a man sets out to find the bear that killed his son... A marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical whale graveyard. Six shorts with as many stories of men confronted with a savage nature, which is sometimes cruel, sometimes forgiving but always vast. Taniguchi at his award-winning best.