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The cape and other stories from the Japanese ghetto / (Record no. 29288)

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fixed length control field 990107s1999 caua b 000 0 eng
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ISBN 97819333330433 (paper)
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Author Nakagami, Kenji.
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Title The cape and other stories from the Japanese ghetto /
Statement of responsibility, etc Kenji Nakagami ; translated, with a preface and afterword, by Eve Zimmerman.
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Place of publication Berkeley, Calif. :
Name of publisher Stone Bridge Press,
Date of publication c1976.
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Pagination 186 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Anguished, lusty, tragic, brutal...are the stories and setting of this collection from one of Japan's great postwar literary masters. Kenji Nakagami was born a burakumin. Isolated in the same rural and urban ghettoes for centuries, the burakumin are Japan's little-known outcaste class who still suffer subtle and not-so-subtle acts of discrimination and abuse.
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Nakagami's breakthrough work, The Cape portrays a tough burakumin family, scarred by violence, held together by courage and love, yet threatened by madness and one man's tormented musings on the father he barely knew. In House on Fire, the phenomenon of generational violence plays out in the character study of an ordinary man trapped by his memories and an unfathomable rage. Red Hair is an extended erotic dream, an accidental carnal interlude between a working-class man and a mysterious woman who escape together into the comfort and torture of pure physicality.
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Summary, etc Driven by full-bodied characters and muscular prose, Nakagami's stories unveil the disturbing landscapes and alleyways he knew all too well.
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Item type Books
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PL857.A3683
Item number A28 1999
Holdings
Source of classification or shelving scheme Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Mode of acquisition Full call number Accen. No. Copy number Koha item type
Library of Congress Classification   Non-fiction OLUSEGUN OKE LIBRARY LAUTECH OLUSEGUN OKE LIBRARY LAUTECH   16/04/2013 Gift PL 857 .A3683A28 1999 0034743 1 Books