Me Against the World

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1958, Kazufumi Shiraishi is a prolific, award-winning novelist who debuted in 2000 to great critical acclaim with Isshun no hikari (A Ray of Light). His novel Boku no naka no kowareteinai bubun (The Part of Me That Isn’t Broken Inside), published in 2002, became a national best-seller and is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. The winner of two major Japanese literary awards (the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize and the Naoki Prize), he currently lives in Tokyo with his wife. Born in 1965, Raj Mahtani is a freelance translator based in Yokohama, Japan. His published translations include Fujisan by Randy Taguchi and I Hear Them Cry by Shiho Kishimoto, both released by AmazonCrossing. Klappentext Originally published in Japanese as Kono yo no zenbu o tekini mawashite (Taokyao: Shogakukan Inc., 2008). Zusammenfassung A jaded journalist inherits an abandoned manuscript penned by an old acquaintance who has recently passed away. Me Against the World takes the reader down the rabbit hole of the raging mind of this man, who only rejects the world in order to save it from itself.

Product details

• Authors: Kazufumi/ Mahtani Shiraishi, Kazufumi Shiraishi
• Assisted by: Raj Mahtani (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2016
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality
• EAN: 9781943150021
• ISBN: 978-1-943150-02-1
• Pages: 120
• Series: Japanese Literature Series; Japanese Literature (Dalkey); Japanese Literature Series; Japanese Literature