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Tokyo Ueno station / Yu Miri ; translated by Morgan Giles.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Tilted Axis Press, 2019.Description: 168 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781911284161
- 1911284169
- JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi. English
- 895.636 23
- PL865.U28 J7813 2019
- Winner 2020 National Book Award (US) for Translated Fiction.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | YU | Available | 069654 |
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"Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu's life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan's Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station - the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu's life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park's vast homeless 'villages', traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics."
Winner 2020 National Book Award (US) for Translated Fiction.
