{"product_id":"tokyo-ueno-station-national-book-award-winner-paperback","title":"Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYu Miri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMorgan Giles\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Japanese author of Korean descent, \u003cb\u003eYu Miri \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer of plays, prose fiction, and essays, with over twenty books to her name. She received Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa, and her novel \u003ci\u003eTokyo Ueno Station\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. After the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima, she relocated there and has opened a bookstore and theatre space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorgan Giles\u003c\/b\u003e is a Japanese translator and reviewer. She lives in London.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51995880096045,"sku":"9780593187524","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/aEl6WnkwOExlalV0b0lpMGJjZzU0UT09.webp?v=1776412041","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/tokyo-ueno-station-national-book-award-winner-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}