
Shadow of a Blue Cat
Naoyuki Ii(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-56478-641-8 (ISBN)
Description
Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters: Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Asking himself why he's allowed himself to become a father again at his age, Yuki begins to remember his uncle, who died quite young--younger, indeed, than Yuki is now. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idolized, and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburo Oe and the Marquis de Sade, serves as a strange tipping point: allowing a sense of chaos and complexity back into his otherwise well-heeled life. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity--a dying breed, in novels--"The Shadow of a Blue Cat" meticulously renders his life and opinions as Yuki tries to find a middle path between the radicalism of his uncle's life and the quiet bourgeois home he's worked so hard to build.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-641-8 (9781564786418)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
After graduating from Keio University, "Naoyuki Ii" made his debut in 1983 with "Kusakanmuri" ("The Grass Radical"), which won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. Sophie Refle lives in Paris. Her major translations include Hiromi Kawakami's "To Drown" and Yu Miri's "The Fish that Swims to the Rock". Raised in Japan, Wayne P. Lammers ( Ph.D. in Japanese) taught at the university level. He was translation editor for Mangajin and is considered one of the finest translators of Japanese literature today.