Miri Yu
Forfatter af Tokyo Ueno Station
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Image credit: Yu Miri
Værker af Miri Yu
飼う人 (文春文庫) 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1968-06-22
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- South Korea
- Fødested
- Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Prix Akutagawa (1997)
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- ISBN
- 57
- Sprog
- 10
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- Trædesten
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I felt many things while reading this.. sadness, anger, discomfort, despair. This lack of care for people with out houses is not distinct to Tokyo, or Japan, it is here in my neighborhood and in yours. Yu creates a space for us to reevaluate how much or how little our governments care about people—whether working class or houseless—and she reveals how that attitude may poison us—the privileged who may have a place to return to at night.
This book roots it’s imagery in sounds and vignettes of people and things and creatures passing through the station. It also follows the specific history of this region in Japan. Though very disjointed and fading in its flow through time and space, I believe anyone who reads this will be transported visually and emotionally to Ueno Station. A hard read, but a good read.… (mere)