| Beasts Head for Home Contributor(s): Abe, Kōbō (Author), Calichman, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231177054 ISBN-13: 9780231177054 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016041666 |
| Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, 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. Kyūzō 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. |