In Search of a Distant Voice

Seitenzahl:

183

Gewicht:

130 g

Erschienen bei:

Faber And Faber Ltd.

Kurzbeschreibung

Kazama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Portland, Oregon, whose job is to catch and evict illegal immigrants to the US, often his own countrymen. Frustrated and repelled by what his life has become he is haunted by the sense that his life is a lie, and by an event that happened eight years previously, the reality of which he is unable to confront. Beset by strange passions and emotional fits, Tsuneo's life rapidly disintegrates, a fate compounded by the mysterious woman's voice that Yamada introduces midway into the novel, a voice that speaks of Tsuneo's fears - about his worth, sexuality and identity. Imbued with a beautiful and melancholy sense of longing, the story becomes a quest narrative in which Tsuneo desperately chases this woman, and the mystery of what happened eight years earlier.

Beschreibung

'Lately ... i've been hearing a voice.'§§Kasama Tsuneo is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a normal life after an event that happened eight years previously, on the other side of the world, in Portland, Oregon. When he is seized one day by a strange emotional fit his life threatens to spiral out of control. With his arranged marriage looming, his problems worsen following the emergence of a strange voice a woman who is trying to contact him, but without ever quite revealing herself. Imbued with a beautiful, melancholy sense of longing, the story becomes a quest narrative in which Tsuneo desperately chases this woman, and the mystery behind what happened eight years earlier. Exploring ideas of sexuality, guilt and identity, Taichi Yamada once again displays his unique storytelling qualities, and uncanny gift for merging the everyday and the surreal.

Portrait

Taichi Yamada wurde 1934 in Tokio geboren und gehört zu den bedeutendsten japanischen Schriftstellern der Gegenwart. Er studierte japanische Literaturwissenschaft und arbeitete anschließend sieben Jahre bei der großen Filmgesellschaft "Shochiku", bevor er sich 1965 als freier Drehbuchautor selbständig machte. Sein umfangreiches filmisches Werk wurde mit vielen renommierten Preisen geehrt, darüber hinaus verfasste er etliche Bühnenstücke und Romane, darunter auch das 1987 in Japan erschienene Buch "Ijintachi to no Natsu" ("SOMMER MIT FREMDEN"), für das er den angesehenen Yamamoto Shugoro Prize erhielt. Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Autor ist Taichi Yamada Mitglied in verschiedenen Gremien zur Vergabe maßgeblicher Literatur-, Film- und Theaterpreise und eine Instanz im Tokioter kulturellen Leben.

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Mehr über:  Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Japanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen

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Mehr von:  Taichi Yamada, Faber And Faber Ltd.