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In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyūzō finally makes his way to the waters off Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very existence. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional modern Japanese author. ** Review Abe Kōbō is one of the most respected postwar Japanese fiction writers and internationally recognized for the unique style, philosophical depth, and experimental quality of his fiction. Although Beasts Head for Home is not one of Abe’s most well-known works, readers will be eager to see how he wrote about an important historical moment from an essentially realist perspective. An excellent translation of a novel in need of an English-language version. (Travis Workman, author of Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan ) The earliest work by one of Japan’s foremost writers to appear in English, Beasts Head

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Author

Kōbō Abe

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231544665

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Fiction, History

Rating

4.3 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14