Beasts Head for Home by Kōbō Abe, translated by Richard F. Calichman [in Booklist]
17 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Japan’s defeat in WWII not only meant decimation at home but also resulted in the postwar repatriation of Japan’s colonial diaspora of more than four million citizens from throughout Asia. Among the dispossessed in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, China’s Manchuria, is Kuki Kyūzō,...