Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner): A Novel Binding:Paperback shoots the project's drug dealer

shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range

a joyful Black boy

a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure

and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home

Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner): A Novel Binding:Paperback shoots the project's drug dealerWINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad