Western readers often assume that Japan is one homogeneous culture, but Nakagami, award-winning burakumin writer, exposes the fissures behind this facade. Burakumin are outcast Japanese, marginalized and degraded by a centuries-old belief that they are mysteriously "tainted" with impure blood. Nakag
The Cape: and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto (Stone Bridge Fiction)
โ Scribed by Nakagami, Kenji
- Book ID
- 100190512
- Publisher
- Stone Bridge Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1611729106
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โฆ Synopsis
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Translator's Preface; The Cape; House On Fire; Red Hair; Afterword; Biographical Note.;Explosive stories of the little-known burakumin from one of Japan's great postwar literary masters.
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