FINALLY!!!  Three years after being announced, and a well over a year after its original street date, Copacetic favorite, Jiro Taniguchi's collaboration with writer, Masayuki Kusumi has at last been released in an English language translation.  This 328 page hardcover edition of The Solitary Gourmet collects (we believe) the entirety of the series of short pieces that are to urban dining what the shorts that made up The Walking Man were to urban strolling.  

This late work from Taniguchi is a thoroughly enjoyable assemblage of the dining adventures of a businessman.  While, yes, the dining is solitary, the experience is ultimately communal as readers are taken on a series of forays throughout the wondrously varied neighborhoods of the world's greatest city, and beyond.

31 outings in all, each an in-the-moment, in situ response to hunger, each transpiring in a different area – mostly different neighborhoods located here and there amidst the vast Tokyo sprawl, but also as far afield as Osaka.  As with Taniguchi's most celebrated work, The Walking Man, narrative arcs are dispensed with here, but taken together these 31 outings effectively – and affectingly – create an empathic portrait of the solitary gourmet himself.

We direct anyone wanting to learn (a lot) more about this volume along with some of the history attached to it to Joe McCulloch's deep dive review up on TCJ.com, HERE.

YAY!

BACK IN STOCK!