{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu-9781953861528","title":"The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu","description":"\u003cb\u003eReminiscent of Kurasawa's film \u003ci\u003eIkiru\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from the shadows. He wanders away in concentric circles, as if along a spider web, and wakes in a sweaty torment. Nakamatsu sleepwalks his way toward sublime disintegration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatzuo is at sea after being forced out of his job as a literature professor without warning. He retreats into flânerie, musing with imaginary interlocuters, roaming the streets, and reciting the poems of Martín Adán. Slowly, to the \"steady beat of his reptilian feet,\" Nakamatsu begins to arrange his muted ceremony of farewell. He conjures his smiling wife Keiko and wonders how he lost his Japanese community with her death. With a certain electric lunacy, he spruces himself up with a pinstripe tie, tortoiseshell glasses, and wooden cane, taking on the costume of a man he knew as a child, hoping to grasp that man's tenacious Japanese identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike a logic puzzle, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment \u003c\/i\u003ecalibrates Augusto Higa Oshiro's own entangled identity. From this dark and deadly estrangement, a piercing question emerges: \"Why did our hides, our Japanese eyes, our bodily humors, provoke suspicion and rejection?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15573079\"\u003eAugusto Higa Oshiro\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.10h x 5.50w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953861528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953861520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC117000\"\u003eWorld Literature | Peru\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC025000\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC069000\"\u003eCity Life\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugusto Higa Oshiro\u003c\/b\u003e is a Peruvian writer born to immigrants from Okinawa and raised in Lima's working-class center. In the '70s he was a member of Peru's Grupo Narración, a group of writers focused on realist, working-class fiction. He is the recipient of the Asociación Peruano Japonesa's Premio José Watanabe Varas for prose and the Cámara Peruana del Libro's Premio de Novela Breve, and has been recognized for his contributions to culture by Peru's Ministry of Culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu\u003c\/i\u003e will be his first book translated into English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJennifer Shyue\u003c\/b\u003e's\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003etranslations focus on contemporary Cuban and Asian-Peruvian writers. She has an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and a BA in comparative literature from Princeton University. Her work has been supported by grants from Fulbright, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa and has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44482202599661,"sku":"9781953861528","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_43a63374-ed58-4c4b-87cb-b8f924cfc384.jpg?v=1700760143","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-enlightenment-of-katzuo-nakamatsu-9781953861528","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}