Mieko Kawakami

Heaven

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Mieko Kawakami is always ceaselessly growing and evolving.' Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird ChroniclesTold through the eyes of a 14 year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying, this is a haunting novel of the threat of violence that can stalk our teenage years. Instead of putting up resistance, the boy suffers in complete resignation. His sole friend is a female classmate suffering a similar treatment at the hands of bullies at the school. They meet in secret in the hopes of avoiding any further attention but their relationship has not gone unnoticed. One day the two are drawn to a deserted park and unwittingly walk straight int… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5098-9824-4
EAN: 9781509898244
Produktnummer: 34328665
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm

Über den Autor

Mieko Kawakami started her career as a singer-songwriter and is now a prize-winning and bestselling author in Japan. Her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth and The World, was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Japan, and was awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. Her second novella, Breasts and Eggs, won the Akutagawa Prize. Kawakami's first full-length novel, Heaven, won the Ministry of Education's Fine Arts Award for Debut Work and Murasaki Shikibu Prize. Her collection of short stories Dreams of Love, Etc. won the Tanizaki Junichiro Prize. Breasts and Eggs, an expanded version of the novella, was her first full-length novel translated into English.