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Shot by both sides : a novel

Translated by Tom Gill

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Standing on a Tokyo bridge waiting for a friend, Akaki, a middle-aged Japanese man, indulges in reminiscences that recall his arrival in Tokyo twenty years earlier, his childhood in northern Korea under Japanese rule, and the impact of the trauma of war.

japanese title: Hasamiuchi
notes: Japanese title: Hasamiuchi. A Japanese Literature Publishing Project selection.
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781582434339
OCLC number: 213765951
publisher: Counterpoint
publication place: Berkeley, CA
english publication date: 2008
document type: Book
description: 215 p. ; 22 cm.