EAN: 9781782278535

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A fast-paced darkly ironic novella from one of Japan's contemporary luminaries--and the husband of Mieko Kawakami--making his English language debut A teenager gripped by obsession seeks to free endangered birds in this darkly funny study of solitude and toxic masculinity set in modern-day Tokyo Perfect for fans of Earthlings by Sayaka Murata and Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs Isolated in his Tokyo apartment 17-year-old Haruo spends all his time online researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis Nipponia Nippon. Living on an allowance from his parents he drops ever further into a fantasy world in which he alone shares a special connection with the last of these noble birds held at a conservation centre on the island of Sado. His conclusion is simple: it is his destiny to free the birds from a society that does not appreciate them by whatever means necessary. With his emotional state becoming ever more erratic he begins sourcing weapons and preparing for a reckoning in this darkly ironic study of toxic masculinity.

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