Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) [electronic resource] : A Novel
Yu Miri2020
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WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's
busiest train stations.
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 per...
Main title:
Author:
Yu Miri, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Random House, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (109 MB, 03:58:22 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780593211267
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
528725
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |