Shot by both sides : a novel
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Shot by both sides : a novel
Counterpoint, c2008
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Hasamiuchi
挟み撃ち
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"Originally published in Japanese by Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers, Tokyo"--T.p. verso
"This book has been selected by the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP) which is run by the Japanese Literature Publishing and Promotion Center (J-Lit Center) on behalf of the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan"--T.p. verso
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ISBN 9781582434339
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Critically acclaimed when first published in Japanese, the late Meisei Goto's novel Shot by Both Sides climbs inside a mind forever wounded by the childhood trauma of war, following one man's pursuit of his own history through an intense stream of consciousness with loops, flashbacks, and multiple digressions. Akaki, a middle-aged Japanese man in a business suit and overcoat, stands on a bridge in Tokyo, waiting for a friend to show up for an appointment. He recalls how he awoke that morning, suddenly overwhelmed with a desire to locate the military greatcoat he was wearing when he first arrived in Tokyo from his hometown in rural Kyushu twenty years before. Memories of the day he has just spent fruitlessly searching for the coat mingle with memories of his lonely, lust-drenched teen years as a poor country boy in Tokyo and with older memories from his childhood in northern Korea under Japanese colonial rule, when his dreams of becoming a military hero were lost along with his father in Japan's defeat. Shot by Both Sides is an enlightening adventure of introspection and a stylistic triumph of unique power.
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: pbk ISBN 9781582434735
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'Shot By Both Sides' is an intense stream of consciousness with loops, flashbacks and multiple digressions that surge through the mind of Akaki, a middle-aged Japanese man in a business suit and overcoat, standing on a bridge in Tokyo, waiting for a friend to show up for an appointment.
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