Boxers & Saints: Boxers & Saints Boxed Set (Series #1) (Multiple copy pack)

from jobinsonlis

So here's the thing about this graphic novel. The cute, cartoony art makes you think that this is going be a heartwarming story of this boy in a small Chinese community and that is not what this is. This is a brutal story. Horrible stuff happens to the main character (and his family) and he does ...

from Mari

Got it in good condition and as expected.

from MaowangVater

Boxers Little Bao loves spring and the festivals that accompany the season, especially the traditional opera, presided over by a small statue of the local earth god Tu Di Gong, that comes to his small rural village with its colorful costumes and music. So he's shocked when a group of ruffians wit...

from Octjillery

I wanted to review both books together, so I'm glad this boxed set was listed. *Note: Definitely read Boxers first. Saints is a companion novel, yes, but it's not as involved as Boxers, and reading the little epilogue in Saints before reading Boxers won't have the same effect. My familiarity with...

from jimrgill

This two-volume graphic narrative set against the historical events of the Boxer uprising in turn-of-the-century China tells the complementary tales of Little Bao, an adolescent Chinese boy who leads the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fist in defense of his homeland against British and E...