Gene Luen Yang
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 4.24 | 1579 Users | 282 Reviews
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| Title | : | Boxers & Saints (Boxers & Saints #1-2) |
| Author | : | Gene Luen Yang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Boxed Set |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2013 by First Second |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Cultural. China |
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Boxers & Saints Boxed Set EditionOne of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work.
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.
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.
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.
This boxed set includes the trade paperback Boxers as well as the trade paperback Saints, packaged together in one slipcase.
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| Original Title: | Boxers & Saints |
| ISBN: | 1596439246 (ISBN13: 9781596439245) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/boxerssaintsboxedset/GeneYang |
| Series: | Boxers & Saints #1-2 |
| Setting: | China |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2013), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17) (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2013) |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 1579 Users | 282 ReviewsCommentary About Books Boxers & Saints (Boxers & Saints #1-2)
I'm glad to see this comic, which I originally read separately, sold as a boxed set. Ideally, in my opinion, these two volumes would NOT be offered separately, and maybe would be set up in a book that had one story from one cover and the other set in the flipped side. (I remember buying Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and then finishing it late at night and having to wait out the hours until I could run out and buy Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. To me, those weren't two books, either.) AsTechnically I read two separate volumes, but I can't imagine reviewing these stories separately. They were two beautiful, tragic halves of one whole story. Gene Luen Yang is a master at his craft, and this books tugged me into the stories of Bao and Vibiana, as they came to identify with separate sides of the Boxer Rebellion in China. I'd not learned much about this part of world history in school or in college, so only recently did I start to understand even a part of what was going on with the
Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints is a morally complex look at China around 1894 to the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. No one is totally good nor evil, and what starts off as a fairly straight forward proposition to rid China of "foreign devils" rapidly becomes more and more complicated. I am again impressed at how the graphic novel can be a medium to convey a complex and nuanced story. Also I liked the mixing in of references to The Romance of Three Kingdoms, the Oath of the Peach Garden, Chinese
I got the box set and read both volumes together, and I can't imagine reading it any other way. I love how Yang tells the story of the conflict from both sides. Makes me want to learn more about the Boxer Rebellion.
THIS IS SO GOOD I CAN'T EVEN.
Probably one of the best graphic novels I've read, Boxers & Saints (two volumes, which can be bought separately or together) probably ranks with Maus as one of the bleakest. A fictionalised account of the rise of the Boxer Rebellion (with fantastic elements added) it tells the dual stories of Little Bao and Four-Girl, two protagonists on different sides of the conflict. Birthed out of author Gene Luen Yang's conflicted feelings about this complicated historical event, it is basically two
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