Natsuki Ikezawa, Author , trans. from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. Kodansha $22 (280p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2686-6
A young Japanese woman struggles to spring her brother from an Indonesian prison in Ikezawa's latest, which begins when Kaoru Nishijima learns that her brother, Tez, has been arrested and imprisoned in Bali for heroin possession. When her old-fas
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Natsuki Ikezawa, Author, Dennis Keene, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $25 (176p) ISBN 978-4-7700-2185-4
Falling somewhere between the avant-garde austerity of Kenzaburo Oe and the pop-culture postmodernism of Haruki Murakami, Ikezawa's collection of five longish short stories covers the theme of everyday Japanese alienation in an accessible if...
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Natsuki Ikezawa, trans. from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. Viz, $24.99 (350p) ISBN 978-1-4215-4222-5
In the fictional island nation of Navidad, formerly a Japanese occupied territory, a bus containing a Japanese delegation vanishes without a trace, causing a diplomatic imbroglio. President Matías Guili, the dictator of Navidad, favors the Japanese...
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