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How Do You Live?: The inspiration for The Boy and the Heron, the major new Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli film

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The inspiration for The Boy & The Heron, the major new Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli film and Golden Globe Award winner 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero, and his uncle are our guides in science, in ethics, in thinking. And on the way they take us, through a school story set in Japan in 1937, to the heart of the questions we need to ask ourselves about the way we live our lives. We will experience betrayal and learn about how to make tofu. We will examine fear, and how we cannot always live up to who we think we are, and we learn about shame, and how to deal with it. We will learn about gravity and about cities, and most of all, we will learn to think about things – to, as the writer Theodore Sturgeon put it, ask the next question’ – from the foreword by Neil Gaiman

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Weight 0.197 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

288
Publisher

Year Published

2023-7-6
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1846046467
About The Author

Genzaburo Yoshino (1899-1981) was a writer, editor and journalist. In 1935, the writer Yamamoto appointed him editor-in-chief of the 16-book series: A Library for Young Japanese Nationals. How Do You Live? is the final book in this series, bringing in themes of Marxism, antimilitarism and Buddhism.
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An important, worthwhile and surprisingly of-the-moment novel … as timely now as it was in 1937
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Heartwarming and empathetic. . . Like the best Miyazaki films, [the] lessons are often deceptively simple, but they have implications for every person who comes of age through adversity.

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