Igarashi Yumiko
The Heart of Thomas (トーマの心臓 / Thomas no Shinzō)
by Moto Hagio528-page black & white (with some color) 7” x 9.5” hardcover • $39.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-551-8Ships in: December 2012 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now
The setting: A boys’ boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school:
To Juli, one last time.
This is my love.
This is the sound of my heart.
Surely you must understand.Thus begins Moto Hagio’s The Heart of Thomas — one of the most compelling and enigmatic manga graphic novels ever created, and a pioneer in the popular boys’-romance “shounen-ai” genre. Thomas’s death (was it an accident? Suicide? Or even murder?) immediately throws the school into turmoil, while his letter sets off a chain of emotional upheaval both for the recipient and an ever-expanding circle of friends, family, and teachers, as secrets are revealed and shared. And then a new boy who looks exactly like Thomas shows up at school…
Unabashedly romantic and emotionally complex, The Heart of Thomas features an unusual, richly imagined setting and a cast of memorable characters. This timeless masterpiece is now finally available to American readers.
ahhhh i can’t wait i’m gonna die
The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio — a foundational manga classic, published in English for the first time in a single, gorgeous hardcover volume! Read the full first chapter for free! Available in December!
this is absurdly important
everyone prepare for all of the feelings i will be having on the internet when this drops
