The cape and other stories from the Japanese ghetto /
by Nakagami, Kenji.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, c1999Description: 191 p. ; 17 cm.ISBN: 1880656396; 9781880656396.Uniform titles: Works. Selections. English. 1999.Subject(s): Nakagami, Kenji -- Translations into English| Item type | Location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Epoka University Library
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PL857.A3683 A28 1999 (Browse shelf) | Available |
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his breakthrough novella about a burakumin community in a small coastal city and their struggles with complicated family histories and troubled memories. Poverty, violence, suicide, and the harsh natural conditions of their home constantly disrupt their lives. Two more early stories, "The Burning House" and "Redhead, " continue these themes, relieved by small moments of profound tenderness.
The cape (Misaki) -- House on fire (Kataku) -- Red hair (Akagami)
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