Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa
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A startling tale about the anguished battle to escape oneself; a homage to Haruki Murakami and a stunning piece of magical realism
“An elegant and compressed investigation into memory, its faults, and the arbitrary markers that we set down to locate ourselves, and to form our perspective on the present” — Times Literary Supplement
“An elegant and compressed investigation into memory, its faults, and the arbitrary markers that we set down to locate ourselves, and to form our perspective on the present” — Times Literary Supplement
Full of melancholic wisdom and droll, self-mocking humor, Slow Boat is a surprising and moving story of inertia, longing and the inability of escaping the past.
I’ve never made it out of Tokyo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself if the boundary is real. Of course it’s real. And if you think I’m lying, you can come and see for yourself.
Boku has an uneasy preoccupation with dreams - and with making and losing lovers. And when he first runs away from Tokyo, his dreams and his reality gradually start to shift and overlap. This is a story of three failed escapes from the confines of the city, and the loss of three girlfriends in the process. The first girlfriend is taken away, the second runs away, and the third is sent away by Boku himself.
A startling tale about the anguished battle to escape oneself, this structurally complex and fascinating novella is both a homage to Haruki Murakami and a stunning piece of magical realism.
Part of Pushkin’s Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.
I’ve never made it out of Tokyo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself if the boundary is real. Of course it’s real. And if you think I’m lying, you can come and see for yourself.
Boku has an uneasy preoccupation with dreams - and with making and losing lovers. And when he first runs away from Tokyo, his dreams and his reality gradually start to shift and overlap. This is a story of three failed escapes from the confines of the city, and the loss of three girlfriends in the process. The first girlfriend is taken away, the second runs away, and the third is sent away by Boku himself.
A startling tale about the anguished battle to escape oneself, this structurally complex and fascinating novella is both a homage to Haruki Murakami and a stunning piece of magical realism.
Part of Pushkin’s Japanese Novella series: stylishly designed editions of the best of contemporary Japanese fiction, featuring celebrated, prize-winning authors including Mieko Kawakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Fujino and Natsuko Imamura.