The End of August

Yu, Miri

Riverhead Books

A startling work composed of eerily vivd scenes that possess an animation-like hyper-reality, Gold Rush, a phenomenal best-seller in Japan, is a graphic, violent, controversial novel of the corruption of modern Japan and its youth.

Gold Rush

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Welcome Rain Publishers

Genre Fiction

As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been 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 easily, haunting the park near Ueno Station. It is here that Kazu s life in Tokyo began and ended, having arrived there to work as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics before ending his days living in the vast homeless villages in the park, traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.

Tokyo Ueno Station

Contemporary

Tilted Axis Press

A multi-generational, multilingual epic by the National Book Award Winner and bestselling author and translator of Tokyo Ueno Station\nIn 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-Cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag.\nNearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. With the help of powerful Korean shamans, she summons the spirit of Lee Woo-Cheol only to be immersed in the memories of her grandfather, his brother, Lee Woo-Gun, and their neighbour, a young teen who was tricked into becoming a comfort woman for Japanese soldiers.\nA meditative dance of generations, The End of August is a semi-autobiographical investigation into nationhood and family - what you are born into and what is imposed. Yu Miri’s distinct prose, rhythmically translated by Morgan Giles, explores the minutiae of generational trauma, shedding light on the postwar migration of Koreans to Japan.

End of August

Le Berceau au bord de l'eau

Philippe Picquier

World Literature

Edition Q

JR上野駅公園口 (河出文庫)

Kazu nació en Fukushima en 1933, el mismo año que el emperador japonés, y su vida se ha visto siempre ligada a la de la familia imperial. Su espíritu no puede descansar y se ve condenado a vagar por el parque que se extiende junto a la estación de Ueno, en Tokio, lugar que marcó su existencia y fue el escenario de su muerte. El parque fue lo primero que vio al llegar a Tokio para trabajar como peón en los preparativos de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1964, y también fue allí donde terminó sus días, como uno de los desheredados que lo habitan, traumatizado por el tsunami de 2011 y enfurecido por el anuncio de los Juegos de 2020. Kazu ha perdido toda noción física del mundo, pero su percepción es más aguda que nunca, y de su mano atravesamos las luces y las tinieblas de la vida de Tokio. CRÍTICAS«Si hay algo que Yū puede hacer es escribir. Una presencia oscura y melancólica en las estanterías. Un genio creativo.» ―The New York Times«Miri Yū nos brinda con una fábula surrealista de familias divididas, relaciones desintegradas y la casual devaluación de la humanidad.» ―Booklist«Una novela sobre el mundo que nos rodea. No es una historia de fantasmas, pero sí igual de aterradora.» ―Rumaan Alam, The Washington Post«Serenamente meditativa y sutilmente espectral. La prosa sobria de Yū Miri expresa de una forma maravillosa la perspectiva del paso del tiempo.» ―Publishers Weekly«Sobria y madura. Una novela melancólica impregnada de historia personal y nacional.» ―Kirkus Review«Tokio, estación de Ueno es una novela impresionante y una mirada dura e intransigente a la desesperación existencial.» ―National Public Radio«Gloriosa.» The New York Times«Sobre, indeleble.» ―The Oprah Magazine,

Tokio, estación de Ueno (Impedimenta, 1) (Spanish Edition)

Impedimenta

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