Kirkus Reviews describes the novel as "a memorable portrait of statelessness, exile, and wandering." In the Asian Review of Books, Peter Gordon writes " Beasts Head for Home is as riveting and as unforgiving as the frigid Civil War wilderness in which it is set," praises Calichman's translation, but finds his introduction to be "overly complex for the lay reader." The Memphis Flyer finds Beasts to be a "good novel," but "a preparation for the greater novels to come. At the onset of the Chinese Civil War, the Red Army withdraws, and Kyuzo is finally able to begin the long journey south that he hopes will lead to his repatriation in Japan. After battling to be seen in his local medical clinic, he enters a hospital, where a physician prescribes hot-spring therapy in Hell Valley. The next morning he wakes to discover that he has daikon radish sprouts emerging from his shins. After her death, Kyuzo becomes the charge of two Soviet soldiers, who treat him well but will not allow him to leave. One morning, while pondering the stress of his latest assignment at his uninspiring job, the narrator of Kangaroo Notebook feels an itching on his leg that seems to indicate an unusual hair loss. ![]() Selecciona el departamento donde deseas realizar tu búsqueda. Soviet forces have arrived in Manchuria, and most of the Japanese civilians living there have already fled, but Kyuzo stays behind to care for his ailing mother. : Kangaroo Notebook: 9780679424123: Kobo Abe, Maryellen Toman Mori: Libros. ![]() In short order, Kobo Abe’s unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. ![]() The story concerns a Japanese adolescent named Kiku Kyuzo, an orphan living in Manchuria at the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945, who attempts to make his way back to his ancestral homeland, a country he has never known. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |