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by Ono, Masatsugu

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  • Title Echo on the Bay
  • Author Ono, Masatsugu
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Two Lines Press
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ00EU2V_ns
  • ISBN 9781949641035 / 1949641031
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 12.19 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 16 to UP years
  • Grade levels 11 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
  • Library of Congress subjects Police, City and town life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019044396
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.636

From the rear cover

Winner of the Mishima Prize

In a small fishing village, the new police chief's teenage daughter listens to the locals who come to her father with bottles of liquor and stories to tell, reading into their words and poring over the silence they leave behind. As conflicting accounts of horrific violence--including a dangerous attempt to save some indentured Korean coal mine workers from the Japanese military police and the fate of a group of Chinese refugees--come in and out of focus, she sets out for the Bay, where the tide has recently turned red and an ominous boat from the past has suddenly reappeared.

Populated by an infectious cast of characters that includes a solemn drunk with a burden to bear; a scarred woman constantly tormented by the local kids' fireworks; a lone communist; and the "Silica Four," a group of out-of-work men who love to gossip--Masatsugu Ono's Mishima Prize-winning novel is a masterful epic in village miniature: proof again that there are no small stories--and that the echoes of history's untreated wounds return again and again.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2020, Page 20
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2020, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/06/2020, Page 0

About the author

Masatsugu Ono is the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The Water-Covered Grave), which won the Asahi Award for New Writers, and Nigiyakana wan ni seowareta fune (Echo on the Bay), which won the Mishima Prize. A prolific translator from the French--including works by douard Glissant and Marie NDiaye--Ono received the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest literary honor, in 2015. He lives in Tokyo.

Angus Turvill was a winner of the grand prize in the Shizuoka International Translation Competition, and he has received John Dryden and Kurodahan translation awards. His translations include Masatsugu Ono's Lion Cross Point, also published by Two Lines Press, Tales from a Mountain Cave, by the great humorist and anti-militarist Hisashi Inoue, and Heaven's Wind, a bilingual collection of stories by some of Japan's finest contemporary women writers.