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Yu Miri

柳美里

Born 1968 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    National Book Award 2020 · Winner

    Tokyo Ueno Station

    JR上野駅公園口 · JR Ueno-eki kōen-guchi

    Yu Miri · 46 when first published

    Novel · 168 pages

    Translated by Morgan Giles

    AI-generated summary:A man from Fukushima, who first stepped off the train at Ueno as a migrant labourer the year before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, roams Ueno Park, a place where the living and the dead exist side by side.