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Tokyo Ueno Station

JR上野駅公園口 · JR Ueno-eki kōen-guchi

Yu Miri (柳美里, born 1968)

Translated by Morgan Giles

English editions

In English

  • Tokyo Ueno Station

    Riverhead Books · United States · 22 June 2021 · Paperback · 192 pages

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  • Tokyo Ueno Station

    Tilted Axis Press · United Kingdom · 2019 · Paperback · 168 pages

  • Tokyo Ueno Station

    Riverhead Books · United States · 23 June 2020 · Hardcover · 192 pages

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Born in 1933 on the very birthday of Japan's future emperor, a man from Fukushima comes to Tokyo in 1963, ahead of the Olympic Games, to earn money far from home. Following him through a gruelling life to the park by the station, a ground shared by those alive and those departed, the story shows both the light and the darkness of Japan, and is meant for everyone who has lost a place to belong.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
187 pages in the original
Set in
Japan
First published
2014 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Author's age
46 when first published
ISBN

9784309022659 (original)

9781911284161 (Tilted Axis Press, United Kingdom)

9780593088029 (Riverhead Books, United States)

9780593187524 (Riverhead Books, United States)

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