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020			_a9781782278535 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-3 _bABE
100			_aAbe, Kazushige
245			_aNipponia Nippon
260			_bPushkin Press _c2023 _aLondon
300			_a155p.
520			_aIsolated 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.
650			_aJapanese fiction
650			_aTranslated from the Japanese
690			_aGeneral
700			_aYasar, Kerim (Translator)
942			_cBK
999			_c60416 _d60416