The House of the Brutes

"House of Brutes" is a three-volume manga by Japanese mangaka Gengoroh Tagame. "House of Brutes" ranges among his most influential and highly renowned works, famous for its stunning story-telling and striking visuals.

"In Gengoroh Tagame's beautiful manga, the delicate original and bold Japanese sense of rendering is brought to bear on pictures of cruelty, pain and bondage. But there is beauty too in how all those knots are tied."

• Edmund White