Beasts Head for Home

A Novel

Kōbō Abe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17705-4 (ISBN)

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In the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional modern Japanese author.

In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyuzo finally makes his way to the waters off Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very existence. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional modern Japanese author.

Abe Kobo (1924-1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative fiction and plays of the absurd. Richard F. Calichman is professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is also the translator and editor of The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo (Columbia, 2013).

Introduction Beasts Head for Home

Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Weatherhead Books on Asia
Übersetzer	Richard Calichman
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	0-231-17705-4 / 0231177054
ISBN-13	978-0-231-17705-4 / 9780231177054
Zustand	Neuware