Kazuki Kaneshiro
Autore di Go: A Coming of Age Novel
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Opere di Kazuki Kaneshiro
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Kaneshiro, Kazuki
- Nome legale
- 金城一紀
- Data di nascita
- 1968-10-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Korea (birth)
Japan (passport) - Luogo di nascita
- Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japon
- Istruzione
- Université Keiō, Tokyo
- Attività lavorative
- Romancier
Mangaka - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Prix Naoki (2000)
- Breve biografia
- Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, to second-generation Koreans. Attended Keio University to study Law. In 1998, he won the Most Promising Contemporary Author award for his debut novel, Revolution No. 3. In 2000, he won the Naoki Award for his novel, Go, which tells a tale of a wild teenager's rebellion against Japan's national bias and prejudices against Korean-Japanese residents. He's considered the leading voice of Korean-Japanese nationals.
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On the surface, this is a wonderful "boy meets girl" story. They have so much in common, except the one difference they can't overcome.
But not too far under the surface, this is a story about racism and acceptance. What really makes us one race vs another, one nationality vs another.
The boy in the story was born and raised in Japan, speaks Japanese as his primary language - but he's considered Korean because his parents are Korean. He learns to speak Korean at school - some of his Korean friends don't even learn to speak Korean.
I don't tend to think of Japan as having problems with racism, so this book was very eye-opening.… (altro)
But not too far under the surface, this is a story about racism and acceptance. What really makes us one race vs another, one nationality vs another.
The boy in the story was born and raised in Japan, speaks Japanese as his primary language - but he's considered Korean because his parents are Korean. He learns to speak Korean at school - some of his Korean friends don't even learn to speak Korean.
I don't tend to think of Japan as having problems with racism, so this book was very eye-opening.… (altro)
Fiction with a friend category. The beginning was interesting, but plot stayed somewhat superficial. Some of the behind the scenes culture was eye opening
I finished Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro this morning as part of the Asian Readathon. It is a short book in the bildungsroman genre that focuses on ethnic identity and discrimination (and there's a YA romance backdrop). It was pretty good and a very quick read.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Utenti
- 386
- Popolarità
- #62,660
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 24
- Lingue
- 6
Characters: 6.5
Setting: 7.5
Prose: 3.5
Tags: Zainichi, Korea, Japan, foreigners, fighting, romance, identity, nationality