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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

by Kenji Nakagami

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The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin--an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today--Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. "The Cape" is his breakthough novella about a burakumin community in a small coastal city and their struggles with complicated family histories and troubled memories. Poverty, violence, suicide, and the harsh natural conditions of the home constantly disrupt their lives. Two more early stories, "House on Fire" and "Red Hair, " continue these themes, relieved by small moments of profound tenderness.
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About the Author

Kenji Nakagami (1946-1992) recieved the Akutagawa Prize for "The Cape" in 1976.Eve Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of modern Japanese literature at Wellesley University.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781880656396
Translator:
Zimmerman, Eve
Author:
Zimmerman, Eve
Author:
Nakagami, Kenji
Publisher:
Stone Bridge Press
Location:
Berkeley, Calif. :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Japan
Subject:
Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works
Subject:
Nakagami, Kenji
Subject:
General Fiction
Publication Date:
19990501
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
7 x 5 in
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