Me against the world : a novel

Material type: 図書

Author: Kazufumi Shiraishi ; translated by Raj Mahtani

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Publication date: 2016

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: 22 cm

NDC: 913.6

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Note (General)：: Originally published in Japanese as Kono yo no zenbu o tekini mawashite (Tōkyō : Shogakukan Inc., 2008)"The 'Publisher's Foreword' that begins the boo...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 9781943150021
Title: Me against the world : a novel
Author/Editor: Kazufumi Shiraishi ; translated by Raj Mahtani
Author Heading: 白石, 一文シライシ, カズフミ
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/DA1252193X
Mahtani, Raj
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/DA18067205
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 2016
Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2016
Size: 22 cm
Alternative Title: Kono yo no zenbu o tekini mawashite
この世の全部を敵に回して
Place of Publication (Country Code): us
Text Language Code: en
Subject Heading: Businessmen -- Death -- Fiction
Meaning (Psychology) -- Fiction
Life cycle, Human -- Fiction
Immortality -- Fiction
Japan -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
LCC: PL875.5.H57
NDC 10th ed.: 913.6 : Japanese literature--Fiction. Romance. Novel
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Originally published in Japanese as Kono yo no zenbu o tekini mawashite (Tōkyō : Shogakukan Inc., 2008)
"The 'Publisher's Foreword' that begins the book is a part of the novel, not an actual publisher's foreword" -- Publisher's comment
Summary: "A jaded journalist inherits an abandoned manuscript penned by an old acquaintance who has recently passed away. The writing -- a collection of ruminations on the nature of existence by a fifty-three-year old businessman who, as far as the journalist remembers, was a kind and gentle soul -- is nothing short of shocking. In it, this apparent everyman -- whom we know only as Mr. K -- writes that he has a son, daughter, and wife, but has no love for them. He claims that humans are like cancer cells, destroying Mother Earth with their unrestrained propagation. He looks at our mortal destiny with an unflinching honesty and turns to psychic mediums for clues to the afterlife, wondering what immortality -- if it were possible -- would mean for our spiritual well-being. Me Against the World takes the reader down the rabbit hole of the raging mind of this man, who only rejects the world in order to save it from itself" -- Provided by publisher
Related Material: Japanese literature series
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130000797535538688
Related Material (URI): https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB24967085#entity
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016010760
Periodical Title: Japanese literature series
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130000797535538688
Data Provider (Database): 国立情報学研究所 : CiNii Research
Original Data Provider (Database): CiNii Books
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/books
NCID: https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB24967085 : BB24967085
LC Control Number: 2016010760
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016010760