Nipponia Nippon
Abe, Kazushige, 1968-2023
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Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, 17-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon. Living on an allowance from his parents, he drops ever further into a fantasy world in which he alone shares a special connection with the last of these noble birds, held at a conservation centre on the island of Sado. His conclusion is simple: it is his destiny to free the birds from a society that does not appreciate them, by whatever means necessary. With his emotional state becoming ever more erratic, he begins sourcing weapons and preparing for a reckoning in this darkly ironic study of toxic masculinity.
Main title:
Nipponia Nippon / Kazushige Abe ; translated from the Japanese by Kerim Yasar.
Author:
Abe, Kazushige, 1968-, authorYasar, Kerim, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
155 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published by Shinchosa in Tokyo, 2001.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781782278535 (pbk)9781782278535 (pbk)9781782278535 (paperback)
Dewey class:
895.636
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
780766
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