Talk to My Back
Yamada Murasaki
Translated by Ryan Holmberg
Paperback
12 July 2022Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Synopsis
A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists.
“Now that we’ve woken from the dream, what are we going to do?” Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband’s head affectionately.
Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981–84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through...
Details
12 July 2022368 pages
9781770465633Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Reviews
“This early feminist manga follows a suburban Tokyo woman as she navigates her relationship with an emotionally distant husband, her two maturing daughters and the fear of having been 'thrown away inside that empty vessel called the household.” —The New York Times
