Finger Bone

1942. At the turning point of the war, the Imperial Japanese Army is in retreat. On Papua New Guinea, the unnamed narrator of Finger Bone is wounded in the fighting & sent to a field hospital to recover. Finger Bone is the prize-winning debut by famed Japanese author Hiroki Takahashi. The novel explores the self-consuming nature of imperialism, the ingloriousness of war, & how we are all identical in death.°°°HIROKI TAKAHASHI was born 8 December 1979 in Towada, Aomori Prefecture. In 2014, he won the Shincho Prize for New Writers for his debut Finger Bone, & the 39th Noma Literary Prize for Sunday People in 2017. His novel Ceremonial Fire won the 159th Akutagawa Prize in 2018. Takahashi’s other works include the works Morning Glory, Swimming School, & When the Music Stops.TAKAMI NIEDA has translated more than ten works from Japanese into English & has received numerous grants & residencies in support of her translations, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund. Her translation of the novel Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro was awarded the Freeman Book Award in 2018. She teaches writing & translation at Seattle Central College in the US. Ever wasted hours debating your 'All Time England XI'? Well now it's 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. The unbeatable national team have reached the final of the Qatar World Cup. But one journalist is convinced there is a scandalous secret behind England's incredible form. His lifetime's dream is to see the Three Lions win the World Cup. But if he pursues and exposes the shocking truth, his beloved England could be sent home in disgrace. Suddenly this is much more than England vs Germany; it's Love vs Duty, it's Truth vs Happiness. The pressure of the penalty shoot-out is nothing compared to this. There's Only Two David Beckhams is John O'Farrell's love-letter to football; part-detective story, part-sports memoir, part-satire on the whole corrupt FIFA circus; it just made the final for the funniest football fiction ever written .. 1942. At the turning point of the war, the Imperial Japanese Army is in retreat. On Papua New Guinea, the unnamed narrator of Finger Bone is wounded in the fighting and sent to a field hospital to recover. There, he befriends other injured men only to watch them die one by one from their wounds, hunger, and disease. When a soldier dies, instead of a returning the body to Japan, a medic cuts off the corpse's index finger, burns away the flesh, and prepares the remaining bone to be sent back to the soldier's family. The narrator carries the finger bone of his friend in an aluminum tin with the promise he will return the bone to his comrade's young son. Finger Bone is the prize-winning debut by famed Japanese author Hiroki Takahashi. The novel explores the self-consuming nature of imperialism, the ingloriousness of war, and how we are all identical in death. Astral Season, Beastly Season is the debut novel by Japanese writer Tahi Saihate. The story follows Morishita and Yamashiro, two high-school boys approaching the age in life when they must choose what kind of people they want to be. When their favourite J-pop idol kills and dismembers her boyfriend, Morishita and Yamashiro unite to convince the police that their idol's act was in fact by them. This thrilling novel is a meditation on belonging, the objectification of young popstars, and teenage alienation. Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022.Well now it's 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. it's Love vs Duty, it's Truth vs Happiness.