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Beasts Head for Home

by Kōbō Abe
Richard Calichman
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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.
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Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Publisher: Columbia University Press

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  • Release date: May 23, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780231544665
  • File size: 1158 KB
  • Release date: May 23, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780231544665
  • File size: 1158 KB
  • Release date: May 23, 2017
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Fiction Literature Literary Anthologies

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English

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.
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Fiction Literature Literary Anthologies