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Ono, Masatsugu, 1970-
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Fishing villages -- Japan -- Fiction.
Police chiefs -- Japan -- Fiction.
Red tide -- Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Ono, Masatsugu, 1970-
Fishing villages -- Japan -- Fiction.
Police chiefs -- Japan -- Fiction.
Red tide -- Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Echo on the bay / Masatsugu Ono ; translated from the Japanese by Angus Turvill.
by
Ono, Masatsugu, 1970-
Two Lines Press, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION
ONO
Subjects
Fishing villages
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Police
chiefs
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Red tide
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Japan
--
Emigration and immigration
--
Fiction
.
Japan
--
History
--
20th century
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781949641035 (trade pbk)
Uniform title:
Nigiyaka na wan ni seowareta fune. English
Description:
146 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published as "Nigiyaka na wan ni seowareta fune" in
Japan
in 2015.
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary:
"All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new
police
chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. As the city council election approaches, and as tongues are loosened by drink, evidence of rampant corruption piles up
--
and a long-held feud between the village's captains of industry, two brothers-in-law, threatens to boil over. Meanwhile, just out of frame, the chief's teenage daughter is listening, slowly piecing the locals' accounts together, reading into their words and poring over the silence they leave behind. As accounts of horrific violence
--
including a dangerous attempt to save some indentured Korean coal mine workers from the Japanese military
police
and the fate of a group of Chinese refugees
--
steadily come into focus, she sets out for the Bay, where the tide has recently turned red and an ominous boat from the past has suddenly reappeared."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
Social commentary
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
Novellas.
Japanese
fiction
--
Translations into English.
Other authors:
Turvill, Angus.
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