The beautiful children /
Author / Creator: | Kenyon, Michael, 1953- |
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Imprint: | Saskatoon, Sask. : Thistledown Press, c2009. |
Description: | 190 p. : port. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7906341 |
Summary: | A man wakes up in a hospital with one word in his head: Sapporo . He dimly recalls this as the place where he was raised, and it becomes his name and identity. Like an immigrant without language or memory he relies on his young son as guide and interpreter, but soon drifts away into what some might see as madness. In Sapporo's floating world, he is also Prospero, summoning the ancestors and channeling the lost dreams that gave way to the modern industrial era. Parallel to these worlds, and destined to reconnect them, is a young woman's journey through what is indeed the Third World - as surreal in its poverty and shifting realities as anything in Sapporo's visions or his son's predations. |
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Physical Description: | 190 p. : port. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: | 9781897235478 (pbk.) 189723547X (pbk.) |