Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) Ottawa Valley Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of

Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood

sharply written

Who is the perpetrator of this heinous crime

A conflagration of court intrigue

Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) Ottawa Valley Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty ofWINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad