Boxers (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Boxers & Saints)

Yang, Gene Luen

ISBN 10: 060632304X ISBN 13: 9780606323048

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2013

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A graphically rendered account of China's Boxer Rebellion in 1898 is told from the perspective of Little Bao, who joins an army of kung fu-trained commoners who fight for freedom from the oppression inflicted by foreign missionaries and soldiers. By the creator of the National Book Award finalist, American Born Chinese.

About this title

About the Author:

Gene Luen Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. He was an established figure in the indie comics scene when he published his first book with First Second, "American Born Chinese, "which is now in print in over ten languages. "American Born Chinese"'s""critical and commercial success, along with its status as a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Printz Award, catapulted Yang into stardom as a major voice of our times.

Review:

"In "Boxers "and "Saints, " Gene Luen Yang once again masterfully draws us into the most difficult issues of self-identity and communal understanding, with characters who struggle to act out of their deepest cultural and spiritual selves. But when they find that their commitments lead them in terrible, frightening directions--one toward massacres, another toward martyrdom--they must ask questions for which there are no easy answers. The brilliance of this novel--and I mean, aside from the brilliance in the telling of a major historical episode about which most North Americans know very little and which provides some critical lessons in political relationships--the brilliance lies in the merger of fast action and humor and very real characters and startling graphics with a shattering sense of the brokenness of the world and our terrible need for compassion. Read this, and come away shaking."

-- National Book Award Finalist and Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt, author of "Okay for Now "and "The Wednesday Wars"

"A masterful work of historical fiction that happens to be in the form of a graphic novel, and a very accessible view into a complicated moment in Chinese history."

--Dave Eggers

"In "Boxers "and "Saints, " Gene Luen Yang once again masterfully draws us into the most difficult issues of self-identity and communal understanding, with characters who struggle to act out of their deepest cultural and spiritual selves. But when they find that their commitments lead them in terrible, frightening directions--one toward massacres, another toward martyrdom--they must ask questions for which there are no easy answers. The brilliance of this novel--and I mean, aside from the brilliance in the telling of a major historical episode about which most North Americans know very little and which provides some critical lessons in political relationships--the brilliance lies in the merger of fast action and humor and very real characters and startling graphics with a shattering sense of the brokenness of the world and our terrible need for compassion. Read this, and come away shaking."

-- National Book Award Finalist and Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt, author of "Okay for Now "and "The Wednesday Wars"

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 060632304X
• ISBN 13: 9780606323048
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 336