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Download or Read eBook The Boy in the Earth PDF written by Fuminori Nakamura and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Boy in the Earth
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Publisher : Soho Press
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781616955953
ISBN-13 : 1616955953
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Book Synopsis The Boy in the Earth by : Fuminori Nakamura

Book excerpt: A darkly melancholic tale that combines Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Camus’s The Fall —Nakamura’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel is here translated into English for the first time and is another high-water mark in this important writer’s career. As an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver works a night shift, picking up fares that offer him glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, he can’t escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm’s way; he can’t stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in obsessive fantasies that soon become terrifying blackout episodes. The truth is, his long-estranged father has tried to reach out to him, triggering a cascade of traumatic memories. As the cab driver wrestles with the truth about his past and the history of violence in his childhood, he must also confront his present, which is no less complicated or grim. A precursor to Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist The Thief, The Boy in the Earth is a closely told character study that poses a difficult question: Are some lives so damaged they are beyond redemption? Is every child worth trying to save? A poignant and thought-provoking tour de force by one of Japan’s leading literary voices.


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