Heart of Thomas [Hardcover]

The setting: A boys boarding school in Germany, sometime in the latter 20th Century. Fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death immediately after sending a single, brief letter to a schoolmate:Moto Hagio is a genius and leader in the style of shojo manga (comics for women readers). [...] The stories arent about make-up and kitties, though. Theyre actually deep, complicated, and often deal with family relationships.Hagio Moto remains one of the most criminally undertranslated mangaka to have barely made an impression on the English-language manga market. It is criminal because of the profundity of her impact on the art form in Japan as it hit a crucial development phase in the 1970s.A shojo classic in english for the first time.