TY  - GEN
AU  - Abe, Kazushige 
AU  - Yasar, Kerim (Translator)
TI  - Nipponia Nippon
SN  - 9781782278535 (PB)
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Pushkin Press
KW  - Japanese fiction
KW  - Translated from the Japanese
N2  - Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, 17-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon. Living on an allowance from his parents, he drops ever further into a fantasy world in which he alone shares a special connection with the last of these noble birds, held at a conservation centre on the island of Sado. His conclusion is simple: it is his destiny to free the birds from a society that does not appreciate them, by whatever means necessary. With his emotional state becoming ever more erratic, he begins sourcing weapons and preparing for a reckoning in this darkly ironic study of toxic masculinity.
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