Tokyo Ueno station
(Book)
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Author:
Contributors:
Giles, Morgan, translator.
Published:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Desc:
180 pages ; 19 cm
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Description
"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 hasbeen 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"--
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593088029, 0593088026
Notes
General Note
First published in Japan by Kawade Shob Shinsha as JR Ueno-eki Koen-guchi, Tokyo, 2014. First published in Great Britain in paperback in English by Tilted Axis Press, London, 2019.
Description
"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 hasbeen 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"--,Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from the Japanese.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Yū, M., & Giles, M. (2020). Tokyo Ueno station. First American edition. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Yū, Miri, 1968- and Morgan, Giles. 2020. Tokyo Ueno Station. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Yū, Miri, 1968- and Morgan, Giles, Tokyo Ueno Station. Riverhead Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Yū, Miri and Morgan Giles. Tokyo Ueno Station. First American edition. Riverhead Books, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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