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Beasts Head for Home? : A Novel / Kōbō Abe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abe, Kōbō, author.
- Series:
- Weatherhead Books on Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Japanese fiction.
- Manchuria (China)--History--1945---Fiction.
- Manchuria (China).
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Rusted Tracks
- Chapter 2. The Flag
- Chapter 3. The Trap
- Chapter 4. Doors
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Jul 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780231177047
- 0231177046
- OCLC:
- 969199237
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