Tokyo Ueno Station
Yū Miri, Morgan Giles
3.54 · 24 ratings · Published: 19 Mar 2014
Akutagawa-award-winning author Yū Miri uses her outsider’s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan’s most vulnerable people.
- contemporary 3
- historical fiction 3
- literary fiction 3
- magical realism 3
- grief 3
- ghosts 2
- protagonists of colour 2
- on the move 2
- family 2
- poverty 1
- drama 1
- supernatural 1
- horror 1
- city/urban 1
- action / adventure 1
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- audiobook 3
- book 1
- adult fiction 1
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- death / grief 2