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Catch 51 : a han-Japa odyssey : a novel / by Kunioki Yanagishita ; translated by Kunioki Yanagishita and William Wetherall.

by Yanagishita, Kunioki, author, translator.

Tokyo, Japan : Soseki Books, [2020]

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9784991027529 (pbk.)

271 pages ; 22 cm

"Half a century ago, two Japanese boys played baseball at a Catholic international school in Yokohama. Now they pitch each other stories about wounds old and new that time alone may never heal. Kimiyoshi agonized over having been made a fool of in college, where dorm mates called him a "han-Japa." He was also heavily burdened by memories of the sexual molestation he had received from a teacher he highly respected in high school. He lapsed into severe insomnia, and on the advice of a psychiatrist, he wrote stories of his traumas, titled them "Lullaby for a Madman," and buried them in a closet. Bob, also a han-Japa, has had problems of his own, including his son Tsubasa, a sociophobe who has kept to himself mostly in his room at home for the past twenty-five years. Bob, who learns about Kimiyoshi's woes, asks him to let him read the "Lullaby." Catch 51 is a story of how two Japanese, who had received the same peculiar educations at a Catholic international school but then walked very different paths, open their hearts on the occasion of their reunion 51 years later"--Amazon.com.

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