I called him Necktie
By: Milena Michiko Flašar ; translated by Sheila Dickie
Contributors: Dickie, Sheila, translator
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781939931146
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Hikikomori; Young men; Middle-aged men; Social isolation; Unemployed; Fiction
Work titles: Ich nannte ihn Krawatte
Description: "Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori--a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction--in his parents' home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can't bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives."--From publisher's web site.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Ich Nannte ihn Krawatte.