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Author Murakami, Ry, 1952-

Uniform Title Hant o deyo. English
Title From the fatherland, with love / Ryu Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf, and Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Publication Info. London : Pushkin Press, 2013.
©2013

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  895.636 M931f 2013    ---  Available
Description 664 pages ; 25 cm
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Note Translation of: Hant o deyo.
"Selected by the Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP)"--Title page verso.
Contents Prologue 1: The boomerang boy -- Prologue 2: From the Fatherland
Introduction 1: A missed sign -- Introduction 2: Those who wait.
Phase One. 1. Nine commandos -- 2. Seedless papayas -- 3. A herd of zombies -- 4. Antonov An-2s -- 5. Declaration of war.
Phase Two. 1. Blockade -- 2. Knights of the Round Table -- 3. Before dawn -- 4. In Ohori Park -- 5. Spirit guides -- 6. Night in Tokyo -- 7. Decadence discovered -- 8. The execution -- 9. Bon voyage -- 10. Tattletale -- 11. Precious moments -- 12. Wings of an angel.
Epilogue 1 -- Epilogue 2 -- Epilogue 3 -- Afterword.
Summary From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope with the surprise onslaught of Operation From the Fatherland, with Love. But the terrorist Ishihara and his band of renegade youths--once dedicated to upsetting the Japanese government--turn their deadly attention to the North Korean threat. They will not allow Fukuoka to fall without a fight. Epic in scale, From the Fatherland, with Love is laced throughout with Murakami's characteristically savage violence. It's both a satisfying thriller and a completely mad, over-the-top novel like few others.
Note Includes prominent characters (pages 5-10).
Language Translated from the Japanese.
Subject Terrorism -- Japan -- Fukuoka-shi -- Fiction.
Terrorists -- Korea (North) -- Fiction.
Japan -- Economic conditions -- Fiction.
Dystopias -- Fiction.
Dystopias.
Suspense fiction.
Genre/Form Dystopias.
Added Author McCarthy, Ralph F., translator. Translator.
De Wolf, Charles, translator. Translator.
Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator. Translator.
Japanese Literature Publishing Project.
ISBN 9781908968456
1908968451
9781908968494 (pbk.)
1908968494 (pbk.)

 
    
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