Tomoyuki Hoshino

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Me: A Novel

Beschreibung

The unsettling story of a young man who suffers an identity crisis after getting tangled up in a telephone scam.

Autor

Tomoyuki Hoshino was born in 1965 in Los Angeles, but moved to Japan when he was two. He made his debut as a writer in 1997 with the novella The Last Gasp, which won the Bungei Prize. His novel The Mermaid Sings Wake Up won the Mishima Yukio Prize, and Fantasista was awarded the Noma Literary New Face Prize. His other novels include Lonely Hearts Killer and The Tale of Rainbow and Chloe. ME is his latest novel. Kenzaburo Oe is considered one of the most dynamic and revolutionary writers to have emerged in Japan since World War II, and is acknowledged as the first truly modern Japanese writer. He is known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and his struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. His prolific body of work has won almost every major international honor, including the 1989 Prix Europalia and the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. His many translated works include A Personal Matter (1964), Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1969), The Silent Cry (1967), Hiroshima Notes (1965), and Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 229g
• ISBN-13: 9781617754487
• ISBN-10: 161775448X
• Artikelnr.: 46004925