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    "title": "Marshland",
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    "description": "Otohiko Kaga's Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoian scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic living an almost penitentially quiet life in Tokyo, where his coworkers know something of his military record but nothing of his postwar past as a petty criminal. Out of cunosity he accompanies his nephew to a demonstration at a nearby university and is gradually drawn into a friendship, then a romance, with Wakako Ikehata, the brilliant but mentally unstable daughter of a university professor. As some of the student radical groups turn to violence and terrorism, Atsuo and Wakako find themselves framed for the lethal bombing of a Tokyo train. What follows is a delicate balance of Kafkaesque procedural, revealing the corrupt intricacies of the police and judicial system of lapan, and an exploration of the \"marshland\" of the title through extraordinarily beautiful pastoral scenes. The wealth of Kaga's work in fiction remains to be discovered by the Anglophone world. Marshland is a revelation of modern Japanese history and culture, a major novel (though only the second to be translated into English) from a master well-known in his own country",
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