Bibliograph

Inhabitation, Teru Miyamoto ; translated from the Japanese by Roger K. Thomas

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Inhabitation, Teru Miyamoto ; translated from the Japanese by Roger K. Thomas

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Inhabitation

Oclc number

1082331870

Responsibility statement

Teru Miyamoto ; translated from the Japanese by Roger K. Thomas

Summary

"In 1970s Osaka, college student Tetsuyuki moves into a shabby apartment to evade his late father's creditors. But the apartment's electricity hasn't been reconnected yet, and Tetsuyuki spends his first night in darkness. Wanting to hang up a tennis cap from his girlfriend, Yōko, he fumbles about in the dark and drives a nail into a pillar. The next day he discovers that he has pierced the body of a lizard, which is still alive. He decides to keep it alive, giving it food and water and naming it Kin. Inhabitation unfolds from there, following the complications in Tetsuyuki's relationship with Yōko, a friendship with his supervisor who hides his heart disease at work, and his father's creditors, always close on his heels. Daunted, Tetsuyuki speaks to Kin night after night, and Kin's peculiarly tortured situation reflects the mingled pain, love, and guilt that infuses Tetsuyuki's human relationships"--Publisher description., Provided by publisher

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