Marshland

Otohiko Kaga's Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II...
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Author: Otohiko Kaga
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Marshland by Kaga, Otohiko

Marshland

Dhs. 158.03

Marshland

Dhs. 158.03
Author: Otohiko Kaga
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Otohiko Kaga's Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic living an almost penitentially quiet life in Tokyo, where his coworkers know something of his military record but nothing of his postwar past as a petty criminal. Out of curiosity he accompanies his nephew to a demonstration at a nearby university, and is gradually drawn into a friendship, then a romance, with Wakako Ikéhata, the brilliant but mentally unstable daughter of a university professor. As some of the student radical groups turn to violence and terrorism, Atsuo and Wakako find themselves framed for the lethal bombing of a Tokyo train.


During their long imprisonment the novel becomes a Kafkaesque procedural, revealing the corrupt intricacies of the police and judicial system of Japan. At the end of their hard pilgrimage to exoneration, Atsuo and Wakako are finally able to return to his original hometown, Nemuro, on the eastern-most peninsula of Hokkaido island. Here is the marshland of the title, a remote and virtually unspoiled region of Japan where Kaga sets a large number of extraordinarily beautiful pastoral scenes.


Marshland is a revelation of modern Japanese history and culture, a major novel from the hand of a master well-known in his own country, though only the second to be translated into English: the wealth of Kaga's work in fiction remains to be discovered by the Anglophone world.



Author: Otohiko Kaga
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 960
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781628974041

About the Author
Otohiko Kaga (1929-), is a psychiatrist specializing in prison psychosis and criminology. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, he worked in Japanese hospitals and prisons before taking up further studies in France. His writing debut came in 1967 with the long novel Furandoru no fuyu (Winter in Flanders).


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