20 km/h / Woshibai ; [translation Megan Tan and Francine Yulo].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woshibai, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Tan, Megan, translator.

Yulo, Francine, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--China--Translations into English.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Cartoons (Humor)

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

372 pages : b chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Other Title:

Twenty kilometers per hour

Place of Publication:

[Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn and Quarterly, ; 2023

Notes:

A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand. How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly's wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China's most prolific and recognizable--yet anonymous--new underground cartoonists of the current generation. Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: Come back to it as often as you like, it will never read quite the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda.

ISBN:

9781770466692

177046669X

OCLC:

1379067769