Kenji Nakagami

eBook, ePUB

The Cape (eBook, ePUB)

and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

Übersetzer: Zimmerman, Eve

Beschreibung

Born into the burakumin-Japan's class of outcasts-Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community, their troubled memories, and complex family histories. Includes House on Fire and Red Hair.

Kenji Nakagami (1946-92) was a prolific writer admired for his vigorous prose style.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
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• Größe: 2.41MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Kenji Nakagami (1946-92) was a prolific novelist and short story writer who was admired as much for his prose style as his depictions of the burakumin. He received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for "The Cape" in 1976.

Eve Zimmerman is Assistant Professor of Japanese literature at Wellesley College and received the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation in 1992.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611729108
• Artikelnr.: 40502480