{"product_id":"9786269943951","title":"In the darkness of 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e✧ Winner of the inaugural \"In-Situ · Documentary Manga Award\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e✧ A graphic diary of the pandemic by Chinese creator mao\u003cbr\u003e✧ Dedicated to everyone who has ever run through the darkness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease restrain your soul's desire for freedom; do not open the window to sing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to ravage the world,\u003cbr\u003esplitting daily life into two halves:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe first half: epidemic prevention policies grew increasingly stringent, with nucleic acid tests, lockdowns, and quarantine becoming the new normal.\u003cbr\u003eThe second half: policies were suddenly \"lifted,\" as if nothing had ever happened.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDuring this year, mao witnessed those with nowhere to go on New Year's Eve,\u003cbr\u003esaw one absurdity after another in the news,\u003cbr\u003eand experienced one quarantine and lockdown after another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a year where, behind masks, we could not clearly see each other's expressions;\u003cbr\u003eit was also a year of being trapped in chaos, yet unable to stop running.\u003cbr\u003eIn those days when the pause button was pressed,\u003cbr\u003ehow should one go on living?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA private graphic diary written in the dark,\u003cbr\u003eemerging cartoonist mao uses delicate, sensitive black-and-white brushstrokes\u003cbr\u003eto document the farewells, waiting, escaping, and uncertainty of 2022.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The things I thought I had lost have continued in another way.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e✧ Recommended in the Dark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMangasick (Manga Bookstore)\u003cbr\u003eLin Sen (Director)\u003cbr\u003eChou Chien-Hsin (Graphic Creator)\u003cbr\u003eLau Kwong-Shing (Cartoonist)\u003cbr\u003ezbfghk (Hong Kong Manga Promotion Group)\u003cbr\u003eZhang Shang (Animation Director, Manga Author, Founder of Papayep)\u003cbr\u003eChen Yi-Ching (Host of \"Adults' Manga Club\")\u003cbr\u003eZhu Xue De Ren (Poet)\u003cbr\u003eHuang Pei-Shan (Editor-in-Chief of Slowork Publishing)\u003cbr\u003eLiu Shao-Hua (Anthropologist)\u003cbr\u003eTsai Yu-Chen (Executive Director of Walkers Cultural)\u003cbr\u003eHung Hung (Poet)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e✧\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAward Praise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes numbing; it is a first-person work with powerful tension.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What might an ordinary person encounter in a world born of a plague? And how do they survive it all? Through the perspective of a personal diary, mao records the fragments of that year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The sense of emotional loss, friends gathering, the absurdity of life, and the eruption of anger presented through manga effectively concretize the mental landscape of an individual in a rapidly changing world, becoming a rare record in history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emao, manga creator, currently wandering everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"小冊選書 Little Book Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63492342972746,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/2839\/0833\/files\/0_f0d445aa-6d35-4c70-ab5e-eefb8c79a3e7.jpg?v=1790087295","url":"https:\/\/www.littlebookproject.com\/en\/products\/9786269943951","provider":"小冊選書 Little Book Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}