The entire manga list is new this week, but the most significant book by far is the first volume of “Message to Adolf,†by Osamu Tezuka, at No. 6. Mr. Tezuka, who died in 1989, is frequently described as “the godfather of manga.†Clocking in at 648 pages, “Message to Adolf†begins in modern times, quickly jumps to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and moves through World War II. It chronicles the fate of three men with the same first name: Adolf Kamil, a Jewish boy; Adolf Kaufmann, the young boy with a German father and a Japanese mother who befriends him; and Adolf Hitler. The boys become entangled in a struggle between opposing sides - one that wants to expose Hitler's Jewish ancestry and anoth er that wants to suppress it at all costs. The book has a sprawling cast, and the relationship between the two young boys and their struggle to remain friends is touching.
As always, the complete lists can be found here, along with an explanation of how they were assembled.
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