Golden Kamuy, 16.

- Golden Kamuy, vol. 16. Satoru Noda. 

An assassin long faced into senility… a circus act gone very wrong indeed… and a journey through frozen landscapes that serves as an exploration of memory —and as a bargaining chip for shady business…

Noda’s adventure tale expands its eye across all Japanese territory and slowly drifts towards Russia. Towards riddles that lead to increasingly complex realities. For example, the weight of history and politics, which no one can avoid. Hired assassins may have once been instruments of change, now abandoned and forgotten. Some people may be not even a traitor, but somebody fleeing from the role they played in the recent history of a whole nation. And the young may prove not the hope for the future, but the instrument to settle scores with the past. 

As always, quite recommended. 

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