Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Abandon the Old in Tokyo collects Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s gritty, literary stories about the private lives of ordinary people. The collection presents work by a manga creator who helped broaden comics storytelling more than four decades ago, using manga’s visual language to explore everyday lives. Tatsumi is known as a major figure in Japanese alternative comics whose work has influenced generations of cartoonists. The stories in this collection range from poetic and comical to deeply unsettling.