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(*)(trans. by Louise Heal) (★)(´NI-0512´es mismo libro.)(Titulo original : 極道な月[Yakuzana tsuki] A shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman´s experience of growing up in Japan´s yakuza society. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury. But labeled ´the yakuza kid,´ she is the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father´s violent rages at home. The family falls into debt, and Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her young adulthood is marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men. After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, Tendo turns her life around. A pivotal moment is the decision to get tattooed : an act of enpowerment that helps her take control of her life. This is the universally appealing story of a young woman´s successful struggle to escape from a life of ostracism and abuse, and a rare glimpse into Japan´s closed yakuza world from an insider´s viewpoint.) |
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