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A Man with No Talents – Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer Hardcover - 2005
by Shiro, Oyama/ Fowler, Edward (Translator)
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"San'ya," Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for 12 years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. In this fascinating book, he portrays himself as an outsider both from mainstream society and from his adopted home.
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- Title A Man with No Talents – Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer
- Author Shiro, Oyama/ Fowler, Edward (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca and London
- Date 2005
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-080144375X
- ISBN 9780801443756 / 080144375X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.8 in (21.84 x 14.73 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Day laborers - Japan - Tokyo, Working class - Japan - Tokyo
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005041418
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Library Journal, 10/01/2005, Page 90
- New Yorker (The), 11/07/2005, Page 139