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Item Details
Title:
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BULLFIGHT
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By: |
Yasushi Inoue, Michael Emmerich (Trans), Ping Zhu |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£6.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1782270698 |
ISBN 13: |
9781782270690 |
Publisher: |
PUSHKIN PRESS |
Pub. date: |
12 September, 2013 |
Translated from: |
Russian |
Description: |
The prize-winning debut of one of Japan's greatest authors |
Synopsis: |
First English translation of an amazing debut novella by a major and incredibly prolific Japanese authorTsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring himself. And, as he becomes ever more distant, his lover Sakiko is unsure if she would like to see him succeed or be destroyed.Yasushi Inoue's novella won him the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and established him as one of Japan's most acclaimed authors. From the planning of a bullfight-through Tsugami's struggle, his focus and his aloneness-he crafts something intensely memorable, a compelling existential tale.Born in 1907, Yasushi Inoue worked as a journalist and literary editor for many years, only beginning his prolific career as an author in 1949 with Bullfight. He went on to publish 50 novels and 150 short stories, both historical and contemporary, his work making him one of Japan's major literary figures. In 1976 Inoue was presented with the Order of Culture, the highest honour granted for artistic merit in Japan. He died in 1991. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Pushkin Press |
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Non-returnable |
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