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Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa''s Deluge
ISBN: 9780231548328
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press
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In these two novellas, Kimura Yūsuke explores human and animal life in northern Japan after the natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 211. Kimura inscribes the "Triple Disaster" into a rich regional tradition of storytelling, incorporating far-flung voices to testify to life and the desire to represent it in the aftermath of calamity.
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Yūsuke Kimura (b. 1970) lived near Fukushima, Japan, until moving to Tokyo for university. His "Seagull Treehouse" (2009) won the 33rd Subaru Prize. Isa's Deluge (2012) was a finalist for the Mishima Yukio Prize, and Sacred Cesium Ground was a finalist for the Noma Literary Prize. His most recently published work is a 230-page feature in the prestigious Shinchō journal, entitled A Portrait of Stray Humans Going Up in Flames .Slaymaker Doug :

Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. His most recent translation is Furukawa Hideo's Horses, Horses, in the Innocence of Light: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima (CUP, 2016). His books include The Body in Postwar Fiction: Japanese Fiction after the War (Routledge, 2004, paperback, 2012); Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War (with James Dorsey, Lexington Books, 2010); and Yōko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere (Lexington Books, 2007). He has published numerous translations.Kimura Yūsuke was born in 1970 in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. He is the author of several acclaimed works, many of which are set in this region. These are the first of his works to be translated into English.

Doug Slaymaker is a professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. He is the translator, with Akiko Takenaka, of Hideo Furukawa's Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure (Columbia, 2016).