TOKYO UENO STATION Novel by Miri Yu Seen Through the Memories of a “Village” Near Ueno Station in Ghost in Ueno Park, This Book Is Tokyo

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STAFF PICK TOKYO UENO STATION Novel by Miri Yu Seen through the memories of a “village” near Ueno Station in ghost in Ueno Park, this book is Tokyo. The inequalities of society about a man who, while alive, and rift between the rich and the moves to Tokyo to find employ- poor are brought out into the open. ment in the run-up to the 1964 Miri Yu tells the story through Tokyo Olympics. While the coun- dense layers of calm poetic narra- try sees a rapid economic growth, tive. It is filled with sorrow, despair he goes through a series of and longing. I wasn’t sure if I could personal tragedies including the finish the book so devastating, but death of his young son. He retires the last sentence of the book took to his hometown of Fukushima, my breath away. The passage but finds himself unable to remain. below, which is given on the first He then spends his final days filled page, summarizes what this book Title: Tokyo Ueno Station with regrets and grief in a homeless is all about. Author: Miri Yu — Ayumi, Library Manager May, 2020 Publisher: Tilted Axis Press Year: 2019 I used to think life was like a book: you turn the “ Pages: 168 first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on Translated by Morgan Giles turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one, but life is nothing like a story in a book. Call no. 895.635 Y8 T64 2019 “There may be words, and the pages may be num- Item no. 00026317 bered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there is no end. Original Japanese: JR uenoeki koenguchi JR上野駅公園口 about author Kawadeshoboshinsha, 2017 Miri Yu (柳美里) is one of Japan’s most critically acclaimed and best-selling writers. She has published numerous short stories, plays, screenplays and essays as well as novels. She earned the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s top literary honour, in 1997 for her short story “A Family Move”. She is a current bookstore owner and former radio host. Her English debut novel Gold Rush was published under “Miri Yu”. She is based in Fukushima. — from Publisher .

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