Kaikonchi : 開墾地

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Call Number: Adult Book / World Languages / Japanese / Khezrnejat, Gregory
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Not a translation. The author was born in South Carolina in 1984, moved ot Japan in 2017, got a PH.d. in Japanese literature in Japan, writes in Japanese.
520-03/$1 "留学先の日本から、サウスカロライナに帰;したラッセル。葛の繁茂した庭、南部ならではの湿気、耳に届く哀切な音楽--青年は、遠くイランからこの地に根を下ろした父の来し方に想いを馳せる。言語と自己のはざまの;らぎを描き、京都文学賞で鮮烈なデビューを飾った著者の最新刊。
880-03 "Russell returned to South Carolina from Japan where he studied abroad. Kuzu's prosperous garden, the moisture unique to the southern part, the sad music that reaches the ear -youth reminds me of how my father has taken Iran with him when he left Iran. The latest novella of the author who draws a vivid debut at the Kyoto Literature Award, depicting the use of language and separate identities devoted to use of each language one speaks." -- cataloger's translation
"Told in the second person throughout, Khezrnejat's novella centers on a young American who studies Japanese in high school and college. Yearning to return to Kyoto, where he spent two weeks at the age of 16, he applies to the JET Program, and is assigned to work as an assistant language teacher at a junior high school in a town neighboring the former capital. He moves on to work at an English conversation school, and then encounters the literature of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. The streets of Kyoto and the Kamogawa riverside form a backdrop to the main narrative." -- alternative description from various websites

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