num_pages: 192
description: The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his breakthrough novella about a burakumin community in a small coastal city and their struggles with complicated family histories and troubled memories. Poverty, violence, suicide, and the harsh natural conditions of their home constantly disrupt their lives. Two more early stories, "The Burning House" and "Redhead, " continue these themes, relieved by small moments of profound tenderness.
language: English
title: The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
titlecomplete: The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asian Literature, Contemporary, 20th Century, Race
ratings_count: 294
publisher: Stone Bridge Press