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Boxers & Saints Boxed Set

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set

Pien, Lark
Yang, Gene Luen
Yang, Gene Luen

Paperback

Series: Boxers & Saints, Book 1

Young Adult Graphic NovelsYoung Adult Fiction

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ISBN10: 1596439246
ISBN13: 9781596439245
Publisher: First Second
Published: Sep 10 2013
Pages: 512
Weight: 2.82
Height: 1.94 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
Awards: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Cybils, L.A. Times Book Prize, National Book Awards, Volunteer State Book Awards

The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing 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.

A New York Times bestseller

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