La forêt millénaire #[nn]

A young boy stands quietly against a sweeping panorama of ancient, mist-softened mountains and dense forest in this 2017 Rue de Sèvres volume by Jirô Taniguchi. The cover's delicate watercolor palette — layered greens fading into soft blue ridgelines — sets a contemplative, almost reverent tone that feels entirely in keeping with Taniguchi's reputation for nature and solitude. If the cover alone is any indication, La Forêt Millénaire promises the kind of unhurried, deeply human storytelling that makes his work so rewarding.