Fumio Obata

Just So Happens Fumio Obata

Marc Notes: ; 8; Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident. Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death - and confronting a decision she hadn't expected to have to make.. Biographical Note: Fumio Obata was born in Tokyo and moved to England in 1991. He studied illustration at the Glasgow School of Art and received his master's from the Royal College of Art in London. As an animator, Obata has worked with Duran Duran and the UK's Channel 4. He lives in Gloucestershire, England. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015 (EAN 9781419715952, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 03/27/2015 (EAN 9781419715952, Hardcover)