![]() ![]() Maybe like a Japanese Stoner? (John Williams’ novel.) Being a Japanese man in corporate culture, his life is his work and his work is his life. It’s about an average fiftyish Japanese guy who’s trying to live life and pursue happiness with integrity despite a lot of stuff that gets thrown at him. moreĪ Japanese novelist writing about a cat – is it Murakami? No, actually this story is not at all about a cat. But however much I may agree, I expect to press ahead in exactly such a style, for as I struggle to come to terms with my fifty-something self, it has become all too uncomfortably clear to me that a style more suited to a man my age simply does not exist.”. Now if a reader were to say that it’s unsettling to have someone who’s passed the half-century mark presenting himself as the narrator of a novel styled after the young writers of a generation ago, I would have to agree he has a point. No, the fact is, I’ve already slid right on past the big five-oh-a milestone no one thinks is very pretty and few are eager to reach-to become a man of fifty-one. I am not some fresh-faced kid of seventeen or twenty, or even a relatively green thirty, which some people actually argue should be considered below the age of majority these days. “ Perhaps I should start with a disclaimer. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity-a dying breed, in novels- 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. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idolized, and who first introduced the boy to authors like Kenzaburō Ōe 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. 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, He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters: Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Thinking of this man, whom the young Yuki idoīusinessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. Translation of: Aoneko kazoku tentenroku. A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity-a dying breed, in novels-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. 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. 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. Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old.
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