Yukiko's Spinach

About this book

Narrator or character? Reality or fiction? In this tender work of cinema Boilet recounts an intimate love story in todays T?ky? between an everyday Japanese girl Yukiko and her occidental lover. Passionate gentle fresh and vibrant it is a love so strong it hurts. Quietly paced the story unfolds in a host of innovative techniques both narrative and visual. At the heart of the title is Boilets deliberate (mis)use of the pronounced Japanese for inavel/i and ispinach/i. First serialized in 2000 - 2001 in the monthly Furansugo Kaiwa it is the defining work of Boilets iNouvelle Manga/i movement.