J-Boys : Kazuo’s world, Tokyo, 1965
| ISBN: | 9781933330921, 1933330929 |
| OCLC Number: | 669755048 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Shogo Oketani |
| Translator: | Avery Fischer Udagawa |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Stone Bridge Press, 2011, 2012 |
| Publication Place: | Berkeley, CA |
| English Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo's world is changing. This bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy's life in a land and time far away, filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past (in this case World War II's lingering devastation), and growing up. |
| Subjects: | Family life, Fiction Friendship, Fiction Japan, History, Fiction Schools, Fiction Shogo Oketani, Translations into English |