![]() ![]() One of Publishers Weekly's Best Comic Books and Best Children's Books of 2013Ī New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation. 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. ![]() As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. ![]() 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. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. ![]() In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work. ![]()
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