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Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.
Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.
Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Story Locale: Tokyo, Japan
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.
Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.
Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Story Locale: Tokyo, Japan
Morgan Giles is a Japanese translator and reviewer. She lives in London.
UK SENSATION: Published by the new small independent press, Tilted Axis, run by Deborah Smith, Han Kang's Man Booker International award-winning translator, Tokyo Ueno Station became a cult publication in the UK.
UNUSUAL VOICE: The narrator of this novel is a ghost, and the translation is poetic, mesmerizing, and unusual. It's a completely fresh, subtly political take on class and memory, family and trauma.
TIMELY PUBLICATION: The next Olympics has been postponed to Summer 2021 in Tokyo-this novel's emotional locus point-which is now timed to this paperback.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 192 |
| Inhalt: | 192 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593187524 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593187520 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Miri, Yu |
| Übersetzung: | Giles, Morgan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Riverhead Books |
| Maße: | 176 x 126 x 13 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Yu Miri |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.06.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,143 kg |
Morgan Giles is a Japanese translator and reviewer. She lives in London.
UK SENSATION: Published by the new small independent press, Tilted Axis, run by Deborah Smith, Han Kang's Man Booker International award-winning translator, Tokyo Ueno Station became a cult publication in the UK.
UNUSUAL VOICE: The narrator of this novel is a ghost, and the translation is poetic, mesmerizing, and unusual. It's a completely fresh, subtly political take on class and memory, family and trauma.
TIMELY PUBLICATION: The next Olympics has been postponed to Summer 2021 in Tokyo-this novel's emotional locus point-which is now timed to this paperback.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 192 |
| Inhalt: | 192 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593187524 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593187520 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Miri, Yu |
| Übersetzung: | Giles, Morgan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Riverhead Books |
| Maße: | 176 x 126 x 13 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Yu Miri |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.06.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,143 kg |
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