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(*)(Translated by Wayne P. Lammers) (★)(伊井直行[1953-], Titulo original : 青猫家族輾転録 [Aoneko kazoku tentenroku, 2006], Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters : Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Asking himself why he´s allowed himself to become a father again at his age, Yuki begins to remember his uncle, who died quite young --younger, indeed, than Yuki is now. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idolized, and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburo Oe and the Marquis de Sade, serves as a strange tipping point : allowing a sense of chaos and complexity back into his otherwise well-heeled life. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity, ´The Shadow of a Blue Cat´ meticulously renders his life and opinions as Yuki tries to find a middle path between the radicalism of his uncle´s life and the quiet bourgeois home he´s worked so hard to build. ◆After graduating from Keio University, Naoyuki Ii made his debut in 1983 with ´Kusa no kanmuri (The Grass Radical)´, which won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers. His other award-winning works include ´Sashite juyo de nai ichinichi (A Day of Little Importance, 1989),´Shinka no tokei (Evolution Clock, 1993), and ´Nigotta gekiryu ni kakaru hashi (Bridge Over a Muddy Torrent, 2000)´. ´The Shadow of a Blue Cat (2006)´ is his first novel to appear in English. Wayne P. Lammers has won two awards as well as an NEA Translation Grant for his translations, which include Junzo Shono´s ´Still Life and Other Stories´ and ´Evening Clouds´, Mitsuyo Kakuta´s ´Woman on the Other Shore´, and Aska Mochizuki´s ´Spinning Tropics´.) |
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