EAN: 9781782278535

JAPANESE NOVELLAS NIPPONIA NIPPON - KAZUSHIGE...

A fast-paced  darkly ironic novella from one of Japan's contemporary luminaries--and the
husband of Mieko Kawakami--making his English language debut A teenager gripped by obsession
seeks to free endangered birds in this darkly funny study of solitude and toxic masculinity set
in modern-day Tokyo Perfect for fans of Earthlings by Sayaka Murata and Kawakami's Breasts and
Eggs Isolated in his Tokyo apartment  17-year-old Haruo spends all his time online  researching
the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis  Nipponia Nippon. Living on an allowance
from his parents  he drops ever further into a fantasy world in which he alone shares a special
connection with the last of these noble birds  held at a conservation centre on the island of
Sado. His conclusion is simple: it is his destiny to free the birds from a society that does
not appreciate them  by whatever means necessary. With his emotional state becoming ever more
erratic  he begins sourcing weapons and preparing for a reckoning in this darkly ironic study
of toxic masculinity.

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