Otohiko Kaga

Otohiko Kaga's Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, spanning 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. His coworkers know something of his military record but nothing of his postwar past as a petty criminal. Out...