Beasts Head for Home

A Novel

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Japan, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literary
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Author: Kōbō Abe ISBN: 9780231544665
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: May 23, 2017
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Kōbō Abe
ISBN: 9780231544665
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: May 23, 2017
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: 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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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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