J-Boys - Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965 (Paperback, None)


Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo's world is changing. This bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy's life in a land and time far away, filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past (in this case World War II's lingering devastation), and growing up.

"J-Boys" author Shogo Oketani is a writer and novelist who grew up in Tokyo in the mid-1960s.


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Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo's world is changing. This bittersweet novel is a deft portrait of a year in a boy's life in a land and time far away, filled with universal concerns about fitting in, escaping the past (in this case World War II's lingering devastation), and growing up.

"J-Boys" author Shogo Oketani is a writer and novelist who grew up in Tokyo in the mid-1960s.

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Imprint

Stone Bridge Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

July 2011

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First published

July 2011

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Dimensions

204 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

212

Edition

None

ISBN-13

978-1-933330-92-1

Barcode

9781933330921

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LSN

1-933330-92-9



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