Beasts Head for Home
A Novel
by Kōbō Abe
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Pub Date May 23 2017 | Archive Date Jun 27 2017
Description
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.
Advance Praise
"Kobo Abe is one of the most respected postwar Japanese fiction writers and internationally recognized for the unique style, philosophical depth, and experimental quality of his fiction. Although Beasts Head for Home is not one of Abe’s most well-known works, readers will be eager to see how he wrote about an important historical moment from an essentially realist perspective. An excellent translation of a novel in need of an English-language version."—Travis Workman, author of Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780231177054 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
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