Tokyo Ueno Station

Kazu is dead. But through his eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his story, how society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. Born the same year as the Japanese emperor, Kazu' life was tied by a series of coincidences to the imperial family and shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But he always experienced bad luck and loss, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.

A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a quiet yet illuminating, devastating, and essential existence in a shiny global megapolis.

Author: Yu Miri

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Released Date: 2014

ISBN: 9780593187524