Yu Miri: Tokyo Ueno Station

Kazu is dead. But that doesn’t stop him from reliving his life and his choices in a vulnerable, moving voice, through memories shaped by experience, regret, and ultimate loss. When Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station , translated by Morgan Giles, won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the judges described the novel as “an observation of Japan at the gateway of its capital, at multiple thresholds of shifting eras, told in the bardo of a mourning father and compatriot, reciting his s