The Cape: And Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami

The Cape: And Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

Kenji Nakagami with Eve Zimmerman (Translator)

200 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction short stories dark slow-paced

Description

Born into the burakumin—Japan’s class of outcasts—Kenji Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in sensual language and stark detail. The Cape is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community, their troubled memories, and complex family hist...

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