Beasts Head for Home

Beasts Head for Home
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780231544665
ISBN-13 : 0231544669
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Beasts Head for Home by : Kōbō Abe

Download or read book Beasts Head for Home written by Kōbō Abe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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