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The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice

by Allen Say

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A fourteen-year-old boy lives on his own in Tokyo and becomes apprenticed to a famous Japanese cartoonist.
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The dust jacket has two paintings by the author, a large one on the front of two boys on a roof and a small one on the back, but no illustrations inside.
A quote (during a discussion about Van Gogh's palette shown in an exhibition of his works): "... I like to look at the unfinished works of masters; they tell you more about the artists than the finished works. There's something human about them." ( )
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To my daughter, Yuriko
I am grateful to Nina Ignatowicz for having persuaded me to write this book. ---A.S.
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English conversation school, said a small hand-painted sign on the door.
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I reminded Sensei of the lesson he had taught me, that to draw is to discover. "And to be astonished," he now added. [from the Foreword]
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