Description: Marshland, Paperback by Kaga, Otohiko; Novick, Albert (TRN), ISBN 1628974044, ISBN-13 9781628974041, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Otohiko Kaga's Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic living an almost penitentially quiet life in Tokyo, where his coworkers know something of his military record but nothing of his postwar past as a petty criminal. Out of curiosity he accompanies his nephew to a demonstration at a nearby university, and is gradually drawn into a friendship, then a romance, with Wakako Ikâehata, the brilliant but mentally unstable daughter of a university professor. As some of the student radical groups turn to violence and terrorism, Atsuo and Wakako find themselves framed for the lethal bombing of a Tokyo train. During their long imprisonment the novel becomes a Kafkaesque procedural, revealing the corrupt intricacies of the police and judicial system of Japan. At the end of their hard pilgrimage to exoneration, Atsuo and Wakako are finally able to return to his original hometown, Nemuro, on the eastern-most peninsula of Hokkaido island. Here is the marshland of the title, a remote and virtually unspoiled region of Japan where Kaga sets a large number of extraordinarily beautiful pastoral scenes. Marshland is a revelation of modern Japanese history and culture, a major novel from the hand of a master well-known in his own country, though only the second to be translated into English: the wealth of Kaga's work in fiction remains to be discovered by the Anglophone world"--
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Book Title: Marshland
Number of Pages: 884 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Topic: Literary, Historical
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 2 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 36.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Otohiko Kaga
Book Series: Japanese Literature Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
