Flowers of Evil, Volume 8

Flowers of Evil tells the tangled tale of Takao Kasuga, a shy middle-school boy who falls in#160;love#160;with one girl and ends up being blackmailed by another in rural central Japan. Throughout a series of catastrophic adventures, Takao#160;remains absorbed by French poet Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), which becomes the key to this engaging, wide-ranging#160;narrative of romance and revelation. Readers#160;have been charmed and captivated by this all-too-credible, yet often outrageous,#160;story of awkward, young love. Flowers of Evil creator Shuzo Oshimi was#160;recognized as one of the most gifted of the younger generation of#160;manga artists, and in 2001#160;received the Tetsuya Chiba Award.