| Description |
203 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
"When jaded 48-year-old scriptwriter Harada visits Tokyo's old entertainment district where he grew up, he encounters a likeable working man who is the spitting image of his dead father. Lonely, nostalgic, and willing to believe the unbelievable, Harada follows the mysterious man, embarking on a bittersweet journey into the womb of a city whose living inhabitants have perhaps changed too rapidly and lost their souls." "While the visits to his parents seem invigorating to Harada, his beautiful and strangely vulnerable neighbor Kei insists that he stop seeing them for his own good. A battle for the soul - Harada's, a tired city's - ensues in this thinking man's ghost story."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"This book is published within the Japanese Literature Publishing Project managed by the Japan Association for Cultural Exchange on behalf of the Agency for Cultural Affairs" -- t.p. verso |
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Donation |
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Originally published in Japanese as Ijin-tachi to no Natsu by Shinchosha, Tokyo, 1987 (verso t.p.) |
| Subject |
Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged men -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.
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Apparitions -- Fiction.
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction
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Psychological fiction.
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Ghost stories
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Illustrated wrappers (book covers)
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Novels
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Paperbacks
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Translations
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| Author |
Lammers, Wayne P., 1951-
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Japanese Literature Publishing Project.
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| LC no. |
2004351099 |
| ISBN |
193223442X hd |
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1932234039 paperback |
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