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Beasts Head for Home: A Novel
Beasts Head for Home: A Novel
Beasts Head for Home: A Novel
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Following his nation’s defeat in the Pacific War, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth, struggles to return home to Japan from Manchuria. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyuzo finally makes his way back to Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very existence. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional Japanese modern author.
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Release dateMay 23, 2017
ISBN9780231544665
Beasts Head for Home: A Novel

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