Beasts Head for Home by Abe, Kōbō

Beasts Head for Home (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231177047)

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Format: Hardcover
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Beasts Head for Home by Abe, Kōbō

Beasts Head for Home

$100.00
Beasts Head for Home by Abe, Kōbō

Beasts Head for Home

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

Author: Kōbō Abe
ISBN-10: 0231177046
ISBN-13: 9780231177047
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2017
By Kōbō Abe
By Kōbō Abe
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Abe Kobo (1924-1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative fiction and plays of the absurd.

Richard F. Calichman is professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is also the translator and editor of The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo (Columbia, 2013).

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