LEADER 03847nam 2200685 450 001 9910465969103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54205-4 024 7 $a10.7312/furu17868 035 $a(CKB)3710000000614316 035 $a(EBL)4356923 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001631243 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16379117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001631243 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14857751 035 $a(PQKB)11622195 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16249565 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14857655 035 $a(PQKB)24592548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4356923 035 $a(DE-B1597)468932 035 $a(OCoLC)932463421 035 $a(OCoLC)979967760 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542050 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4356923 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11210507 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL902967 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000614316 100 $a20160601h20162016 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHorses, horses, in the end the light remains pure $ea tale that begins with Fukushima /$fHideo Furukawa ; translated by Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 225 1 $aWeatherhead Books on Asia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-17868-9 311 $a0-231-17869-7 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tHorses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure -- $tTranslator's Afterword -- $tTranslator's Acknowledgments -- $tBackmatter 330 $a"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what people do in response. So, among people walking along the roadway, and people on motorbikes, I saw no one with masks. Even among the official crossing guards outfitted with yellow flags and banners, none. All showed bright and calm. What was I hoping for exactly? The guilty conscience again. But then it was time for school to start. We began to see groups of kids on their way to school. They were wearing masks."Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that devastated northeast Japan on March 11, 2011. The novel is narrated by Hideo Furukawa, who travels back to his childhood home near Fukushima after 3/11 to reconnect with a place that is now doubly alien. His ruminations conjure the region's storied past, particularly its thousand-year history of horses, humans, and the struggle with a rugged terrain. Standing in the morning light, these horses also tell their stories, heightening the sense of liberation, chaos, and loss that accompanies Furukawa's rich recollections. A fusion of fiction, history, and memoir, this book plays with form and feeling in ways reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn yet draws its own, unforgettable portrait of personal and cultural dislocation. 410 0$aWeatherhead books on Asia. 606 $aTohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011$vFiction 607 $aFukushima-ken (Japan)$vFiction 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 676 $a895.636 700 $aFurukawa$b Hideo$f1966-$0711104 702 $aSlaymaker$b Douglas 702 $aTakenaka$b Akiko 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465969103321 996 $aHorses, horses, in the end the light remains pure$92487618 997 $aUNINA