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E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Kimura Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge

Two Novellas of Japan's 3/11 Disaster
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54832-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

Two Novellas of Japan's 3/11 Disaster

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Weatherhead Books on Asia

ISBN: 978-0-231-54832-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



In these two novellas, Kimura Yusuke explores human and animal life in northern Japan after the natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 211. Kimura inscribes the “Triple Disaster” into a rich regional tradition of storytelling, incorporating far-flung voices to testify to life and the desire to represent it in the aftermath of calamity.

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Sacred Cesium Ground
Isa’s Deluge
Afterword


Kimura Yusuke:
Yusuke Kimura (b. 1970) lived near Fukushima, Japan, until moving to Tokyo for university. His “Seagull Treehouse” (2009) won the 33rd Subaru Prize. Isa’s Deluge (2012) was a finalist for the Mishima Yukio Prize, and Sacred Cesium Ground was a finalist for the Noma Literary Prize. His most recently published work is a 230-page feature in the prestigious Shincho journal, entitled A Portrait of Stray Humans Going Up in Flames.Slaymaker Doug:
Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. His most recent translation is Furukawa Hideo’s Horses, Horses, in the Innocence of Light: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima (CUP, 2016). His books include The Body in Postwar Fiction: Japanese Fiction after the War (Routledge, 2004, paperback, 2012); Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War (with James Dorsey, Lexington Books, 2010); and Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere (Lexington Books, 2007). He has published numerous translations.Kimura Yusuke was born in 1970 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. He is the author of several acclaimed works, many of which are set in this region. These are the first of his works to be translated into English.

Doug Slaymaker is a professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. He is the translator, with Akiko Takenaka, of Hideo Furukawa’s Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure (Columbia, 2016).



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