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Shadow of a Blue Cat

by Naoyuki II , Sophie Refle , Wayne P. Lammers
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781564786418
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: USD 17.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Literary

Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters: Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Asking himself why he's allowed himself to become a father again at his age, Yuki begins to remember his uncle, who died quite young--younger, indeed, than Yuki is now. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idolized, and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburo Oe and the Marquis de Sade, serves as a strange tipping point: allowing a sense of chaos and complexity back into his otherwise well-heeled life. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity--a dying breed, in novels--"The Shadow of a Blue Cat" meticulously renders his life and opinions as Yuki tries to find a middle path between the radicalism of his uncle's life and the quiet bourgeois home he's worked so hard to build.

II, Naoyuki: - After graduating from Keio University, "Naoyuki Ii" made his debut in 1983 with "Kusakanmuri" ("The Grass Radical"), which won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers.

Lammers, Wayne P.: - Raised in Japan, Wayne P. Lammers ( Ph.D. in Japanese) taught at the university level. He was translation editor for Mangajin and is considered one of the finest translators of Japanese literature today.

Refle, Sophie: - Sophie Refle lives in Paris. Her major translations include Hiromi Kawakami's "To Drown" and Yu Miri's "The Fish that Swims to the Rock".

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