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Tokio, estación de Ueno

Tokio, estación de Ueno in Bloomington, MN
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Kazu nació en Fukushima en 1933, el mismo año que el emperador japonés, y su vida se ha visto siempre ligada a la de la familia imperial. Su espíritu no puede descansar y se ve condenado a vagar por el parque que se extiende junto a la estación de Ueno, en Tokio, lugar que marcó su existencia y fue el escenario de su muerte. El parque fue lo primero que vio al llegar a Tokio para trabajar como peón en los preparativos de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1964, y también fue allí donde terminó sus días, como uno de los desheredados que lo habitan, traumatizado por el tsunami de 2011 y enfurecido por el anuncio de los Juegos de 2020. Kazu ha perdido toda noción física del mundo, pero su percepción es más aguda que nunca, y de su mano atravesamos las luces y las tinieblas de la vida de Tokio.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.