num_pages: 516
description: The setting: a boys boarding school in Germany sometime in the latter 20th Century. Fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death immediately after sending a single brief letter to a schoolmate:To Juli one last timeThis is my loveThis is the sound of my heartSurely you must understandThus begins the legendary and enigmatic Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio. Inspired by Jean Delannoys 1964 film Les Amities Particulieres The Heart of Thomas was nearly cancelled early in its serialization in 1974 until Hagios first trade paperback The Poe Clan Volume 1 sold out in a single day giving her new series a new lease on life. The result was a story more complex less accessible and yet so compelling it can be found near or at the top of any list of classic shojo manga. Translated by manga scholar Matt Thorn and packaged with the same loving attention to detail as Hagios Eisner Award nominated A Drunken Dream The Heart of Thomas is already the most eagerly anticipated manga translation of the new decade.
language: English
title: The Heart of Thomas
publisher: Fantagraphics