Beasts Head for Home

Beasts Head for Home

A Novel

  • Author: Abe, Kōbō; Calichman, Richard
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231177047
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231544665
  • Place of publication:  New York , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2017
  • Month: May
  • 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.
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Beasts Head for Home

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