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How do you live? / Genzaburō Yoshino ; translated by Bruno Navasky ; with a forward by Neil Gaiman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 280 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616209773
  • 1616209771
Uniform titles:
  • Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction YOSHINO GENZABUR Available 33111010598197
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Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's Fiction YOSHINO GENZABUR Available 33111009864022
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As featured in the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film The Boy and the Heron : the coming-of-age novel How Do You Live? is a Japanese classic that become a New York Times bestseller, now with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

After the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Copper must confront inevitable and enormous change, including the aftermath of his own betrayal of his best friend. Between episodes of Copper's emerging story, letters from his uncle share knowledge and offer advice on life's big questions. Like his namesake Copernicus, Copper looks to the stars and uses his discoveries about the heavens, earth, and human nature to answer the question of how he will live.

First published in 1937 in Japan, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You Live? has long been an important book for Academy Award-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki ( Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle ). Perfect for readers of philosophical fiction like The Alchemist and The Little Prince , How Do You Live? serves as a thought-provoking guide for young readers as they grow up in a world both infinitely large and unimaginably small.

Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1937.

Ages 9-12. Algonquin Young Readers.

Grades 4-6. Algonquin Young Readers.

Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.

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