Long Belts and Thin Men: The Postwar Stories of Kojima Nobuo

by Nobuo Kojima

Kojima Nobuo is best-known in English for his outstanding novella, "Amerikan sukuuru" (1954, "The American School"), which earned the Akutagawa Prize that year. Strongly affected by World War II and the postwar era, his style evolved into a powerful, often painfully honest satire depicting the Japanese male as a Milquetoast, under the thumbs of women and society in general. Influenced by Gogol and other giants of Russian literature, Kojima's style...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4902075768
• ISBN13: 9784902075762
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Kurodahan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"