Backlight is a story featuring a missing seven-year-old boy (based on an actual incident), the novella divided into six chapters, each for a day of his ordeal. The boy, only called A, had been driving in Hokkaido with his family -- father, mother, and sister -- on the last day of the May national holidays. This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in , after his parents had apparently abandoned him as a punishment. · This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in , after his parents had apparently abandoned him as a punishment.4/5.
Backlight, by Kanji Hanawa, Translated by Richard Nathan. 66 pages RED CIRCLE AUTHORS, Fiction. While many storytellers would be drawn to imagining the boy's adventures through the bear-rich. Buy Backlight by Kanji Hanawa, Richard Nathan from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. Based on an actual historical figure, the Akutagawa-nominated master short story writer, Kanji Hanawa, takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery, as Lord Asunaro inherits his own.
'Backlight' by Kanji Hanawa is one of a batch of novellas specially commissioned by Red Circle Authors, unusual also in being first published in English translation before presumably then published in Japanese; the first batch - which I came across in a TLS review - will be succeeded by further such commissions in an ambitious series designed to showcase new Japanese writing for a Western readership. Backlight by Kanji Hanawa, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in , after his parents had apparently abandoned him as a punishment.
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