
Nipponia Nippon - Japanese Novellas (Paperback)
Kazushige Abe (author), Kerim Yasar (translator)
£8.99
Paperback
160 Pages
Published: 27/07/2023
Published: 27/07/2023
>p>An off-kilter darkly ironic novella about a boy's strange obsession with the Japanese crested ibis, from a Japanese literary star
Seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his waking hours online, fixated on the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon. Alone in his Tokyo apartment, living off his parents' indulgence, he descends into a fantasy world where he alone shares a bond with the last of these noble birds, their lives caged in the national conservation centre.
Haruo's destiny becomes clear. He will free the birds-alive or dead-from an undeserving civilization. As Haruo's emotional state grows increasingly erratic, he searches the internet for weapons and prepares for the night of reckoning.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781782278535
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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