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Title: J-BOYS
KAZUO'S WORLD, TOKYO, 1965
By: Shogo Oketani, Avery Fischer Udagawa (Trans)
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99


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ISBN 10: 1933330929
ISBN 13: 9781933330921
Publisher: STONE BRIDGE PRESS
Pub. date: 12 July, 2011
Pages: 212
Description: J-Boys presents an appealing depiction of young boys in mid-1960s Tokyo, a time of lingering social & cultural recovery.
Synopsis: Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo's world is changing. This bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy's life in a land and time far away, filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past (in this case World War II's lingering devastation), and growing up. J-Boys author Shogo Oketani is a writer and novelist who grew up in Tokyo in the mid-1960s.
Publication: US
Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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