Boxers & Saints Boxed Set

Beschreibung

The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work.<BR><BR>In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers.

Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.<BR><BR>But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.<BR><BR>Boxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published.

It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature. Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation.<BR><BR>This boxed set includes the trade paperback Boxers as well as the trade paperback Saints, packaged together in one slipcase.<BR><BR> A New York Times bestseller <BR>Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature<BR>A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013

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