Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure : A Tale That Begins with Fukushima

Hideo Furukawa

ISBN 10: 0231178689 / ISBN 13: 9780231178686

Editore: Columbia University Press Mär 2016, 2016

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Neuware - A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir that replicates the experience of trauma and its effect on memory in ways reminiscent of Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Sebald's The Rings of Saturn.

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• Titolo: Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure : A Tale That Begins with Fukushima
• Editore: Columbia University Press Mär 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0231178689
• ISBN 13: 9780231178686
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 220 L x 147 A x 16 P (millimetri) 220 millimetri di larghezza per 147 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 296 grammi

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Riassunto

"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what people do in response. So, among people walking along the roadway, and people on motorbikes, I saw no one with masks. Even among the official crossing guards outfitted with yellow flags and banners, none. All showed bright and calm. What was I hoping for exactly? The guilty conscience again. But then it was time for school to start. We began to see groups of kids on their way to school. They were wearing masks."

Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that devastated northeast Japan on March 11, 2011. The novel is narrated by Hideo Furukawa, who travels back to his childhood home near Fukushima after 3/11 to reconnect with a place that is now doubly alien. His ruminations conjure the region's storied past, particularly its thousand-year history of horses, humans, and the struggle with a rugged terrain. Standing in the morning light, these horses also tell their stories, heightening the sense of liberation, chaos, and loss that accompanies Furukawa's rich recollections. A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir, this book plays with form and feeling in ways reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn yet draws its own, unforgettable portrait of personal and cultural dislocation.

Informazioni sull?autore

Hideo Furukawa is a novelist based in Tokyo. He has received the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan SF Grand Prize, and the Yukio Mishima Award. He is also author of the novel Belka, Why Don't You Bark? (2012), translated into English by Michael Emmerich.

Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

Akiko Takenaka is associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky.