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Fuminori Nakamura

The Boy in the Earth

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A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Camus's The Fall set in Tokyo-Nakamura's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, is the here translated into English for the first time and marks another high-water mark in this important writer's career. The Akutagawa Prize-Winning NovelAs an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can't escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm's way; he can't stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Powell, Allison Markin
  • ISBN: 978-1-61695-895-4
  • EAN: 9781616958954
  • Produktnummer: 23853082
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H19.2 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.5 cm 165 g
  • Gewicht: 165

Über den Autor


Fuminori Nakamura was born in 1977 and graduated from Fukushima University in 2000. He has won numerous prizes for his writing, including the Oe Prize, Japan's largest literary award; the David L. Goodis Award for Noir Fiction; and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. The Thief, his first novel to be translated into English, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other novels include The Gun, The Kingdom, Evil and the Mask, and Last Winter, We Parted.

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