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Inhabitation : a novel

Miyamoto, Teru, author, Thomas, Roger K., translator

Overview

\"In 1970s Osaka, college student Tetsuyuki moves into a shabby apartment to evade his late father's creditors. But the apartment's electricity hasn't been reconnected yet, and Tetsuyuki spends his first night in darkness. Wanting to hang up a tennis cap from his girlfriend, Yهoko, he fumbles about in the dark and drives a nail into a pillar. The next day he discovers that he has pierced the body of a lizard, which is still alive. He decides to keep it alive, giving it food and water and naming it Kin. Inhabitation unfolds from there, following the complications in Tetsuyuki's relationship with Yهoko, a friendship with his supervisor who hides his heart disease at work, and his father's creditors, always close on his heels. Daunted, Tetsuyuki speaks to Kin night after night, and Kin's peculiarly tortured situation reflects the mingled pain, love, and guilt that infuses Tetsuyuki's human relationships\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Subject: College students Japan Fiction. / Friendship Fiction. / Interpersonal relations Fiction. / Nineteen seventies Fiction. / Lizards Fiction. / Osaka (Japan) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781640092174

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PL856.I8735 H3713 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE