hearingtrumpet 's review for:

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

4.0

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Quiet, poetic meditation on life packaged into a sociography/crash course in modern Japanese history . Although the book has a protagonist, the ghost of a recently deceased homeless man, the real focus of the novel is the titular Ueno Park in Tokyo, rich with symbolism, a meeting point of competing historical ideologies and the extremities of the social hierarchy.