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Author Kimura, Yūsuke, 1970- author.

Title Sacred cesium ground and Isa's deluge : two novellas of Japan's 3/11 disaster / Kimura Yūsuke ; translated by Doug Slaymaker
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (164 pages)
Series Weatherhead books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Contents Sacred Cesium Ground -- Isa's Deluge -- Translator's Afterword
Summary "In these two novellas, Kimura Yusuke explores human and animal life in northern Japan after the natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 2011. Kimura inscribes the 'Triple Disaster' into a rich regional tradition of storytelling, incorporating far-flung voices and experiences to testify to life and the desire to represent it in the aftermath of calamity. In Sacred Cesium Ground, a woman from Tokyo travels to volunteer at a cattle farm known as the 'Fortress of Hope, ' tending irradiated animals abandoned after the reactor meltdown. The farm closely resembles an actual ranch that has been widely covered in Japan, and the story's portrayal of those who stubbornly care for animals in spite of the danger speaks to the sense of futility and meaningfulness in the wake of traumatic events. Isa's Deluge depicts a family of fishermen whose crotchety patriarch draws on old tales of the floods that have plagued the region to fashion himself as the father of the tsunami. Together, the novellas present often-unheard voices of one of Japan's peripheral regions and their anger toward the government and Tokyo for mishandling and forgetting their part of the country. Kimura's command of dialect and conversational language is masterfully translated by Doug Slaymaker. Postapocalyptically surreal yet teeming with life, Kimura's stories will be a revelation for readers looking for a new perspective on the disaster's consequences for Japan and on the interrelated meanings of human and animal lives and deaths"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Print version record
Subject Disasters -- Japan -- Fiction
Short stories, Japanese -- Translations into English
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Literary.
Disasters
Short stories, Japanese
Japan
Genre/Form short stories.
Fiction
Short stories
Translations
Short stories.
Fiction.
Nouvelles.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Slaymaker, Douglas, translator.
Container of (expression): Kimura, Yūsuke, 1970- Seichi Cs. English
Container of (expression): Kimura, Yūsuke, 1970- Isa no hanran. English.
LC no. 2018053366
ISBN 9780231548328
023154832X