OKINAWA HC (MR)

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2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - LonglistAmerican Library Association Best Comics for Adults 2023 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Best Graphic Novels 2023 Washington Post Book World Editors Staff Pick 2023 The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2023 A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan’s poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island’s pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu Higa, which reflect on this difficult history and pull together traditional Okinawan spirituality, the modern-day realities of the continuing US military occupation, and the senselessness of t

(W/A/CA) Susumu Higa