By Fuminori Nakamura,Allison Markin Powell
The Akutagawa Prize-Winning Novel
As an unnamed Tokyo taxi motive force works an evening shift, deciding on up fares that provide him glimpses into the lives of normal humans, he can’t get away his personal nihilistic strategies. virtually with out aspiring to, he places himself in harm’s approach; he can’t cease having a pipe dream of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in obsessive fantasies that quickly turn into terrifying blackout episodes. in reality, his longestranged father has attempted to arrive out to him, triggering a cascade of nerve-racking stories. because the cab motive force wrestles with the reality approximately his earlier and the heritage of violence in his adolescence, he also needs to confront his current, that is no easier or grim.
A precursor to Los Angeles Times ebook Prize finalist The Thief, The Boy within the Earth is a heavily instructed personality learn that poses a tricky query: Are a few lives so broken they're past redemption? Is each baby worthy attempting to retailer? A poignant and thought-provoking journey de strength via one in every of Japan’s top literary voices.
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