Tokyo Ueno Station
by: Yu Miri, Morgan Giles
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Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 47
Wishes - 1
Ships From - New York
Est. Publication Date - Jun 2021
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Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel
ISBN: 9780593187524
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stati...
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Jeremy Martin
341 book reviews
Jul 24, 2023
Tokyo Ueno Station felt like it worked 20% of the time for me. There are nuggets of beautiful insight into the mourning process and the homeless struggles and lifestyles (in Japan specifically), but the rest of the tiny book is clogged up with unneeded dialogue from strangers passing by who are talk...
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Nova Martin
65 book reviews
Aug 25, 2023
This book is heart wrenching and beautiful in an understated glimpse of one man’s life and losses and struggle with homelessness. The prose is haunting and aching. I nearly cried just in the opening pages when nothing had even happened yet. There are a few dry spots where certain moments of history ...
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