e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Yū, Miri, 1968-     Subjects     Homeless persons -- Japan -- Fiction.     Working class -- Japan -- Fiction.     Parks -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.     Ghosts -- Fiction.     Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.     Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.     Ueno Kōen (Tokyo, Japan) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Yū, Miri, 1968-       by title:      Tokyo Ueno station /...      JR Ueno-eki kōenguch...       by call number:      FICTION YU     Search the Web     Yū, Miri, 1968-     Homeless persons -- Japan -- Fiction.     Working class -- Japan -- Fiction.     Parks -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.     Ghosts -- Fiction.     Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.     Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.     Ueno Kōen (Tokyo, Japan) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Tokyo Ueno station / Yu Miri ; translated by Morgan Giles. by Yū, Miri, 1968- Riverhead Books, 2020. Call #: FICTION YU Subjects Homeless persons -- Japan -- Fiction.   Working class -- Japan -- Fiction.   Parks -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.   Ghosts -- Fiction.   Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.   Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.   Ueno Kōen (Tokyo, Japan) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593088029 (hc) Uniform title:  JR Ueno-eki kōenguchi. English Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  180 p. ; 19 cm. Notes:  "First published in Japan by Kawade Shobō Shinsha as JR Ueno-eki Kōen-guchi, Tokyo, 2014. First published in Great Britain in paperback in English by Tilted Axis Press, London, 2019"--T.p. verso. Translated from the Japanese. Summary:  "A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu 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. Kazu'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. Through 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, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis"--Publisher. Genre:  Japanese fiction -- Translations into English. Literary fiction. Other authors:  Giles, Morgan. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION YU Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.