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Beasts Head for Home? : A Novel / Kōbō Abe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Weatherhead Books on AsiaPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231177054
  • 9780231544665
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.63/5 23
LOC classification:
  • PL845.B4 K413 2017
  • PL845.B4 K413 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Rusted Tracks -- Chapter 2. The Flag -- Chapter 3. The Trap -- Chapter 4. Doors
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231544665

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Rusted Tracks -- Chapter 2. The Flag -- Chapter 3. The Trap -- Chapter 4. Doors

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)