Snakelust by Kenji Nakagami (.ePUB)
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Snakelust by Kenji Nakagami, Andrew Rankin (translator)
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Overview: A pilgrim meets the ghost of his dead brother deep in the mountains; A bodyguard struggles to control his craving for the beautiful woman he is sworn to protect; A former gang leader beats his parents to death when they forbid his relationship with a girl from the ghetto …
These seven stories by Kenji Nakagami (1946-1992) reflect the violence and hardship of his own short life. They range in setting from the present day to the Middle Ages, with a varied cast of warriors and hoodlums, dreamers and priests. Here is the dark side of human nature: cruelty, prejudice, deformity, lust. Again and again Nakagami confronts us with the disturbing fact of man’s ultimate helplessness before the power of female sexuality. And each story unfolds against the otherworldly landscape of his native Kumano, the wild mountainous region that Nakagami called “the crotch of Japan.”
Born in a slum in eastern Japan, Nakagami grew up among gamblers, drinkers, day laborers and smugglers. His mother, an illiterate peddler, had six children by two men; his father, five children by four women. No wonder that complex, shifting family relationships became a major theme in his work.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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