A Dark Night's Passing
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A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路 An'ya Kōro) is the only full-length novel by Japan
Japan
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ese writer Shiga Naoya
Shiga Naoya
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer active during the Taishō and Showa periods of Japan.-Early life:Shiga was born in Ishinomaki city, Miyagi prefecture. His father, the son of a samurai, was a banker. The family moved to Tokyo when Shiga was three, to live with his grandparents, who...

. It was written in serialized form and published in Kaizo in between 1921 and 1937. It candidly follows the experiences of a young Japanese bachelor.

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Release details

  • 1921, Japan, ? (ISBN NA), Pub date ? ? 1921, hardback (First edition, Japanese)
  • 1990, UK, Fontana Press (ISBN 0-00-617790-5), Pub date ? May 1990, paperback (Eng. trans.)
  • 1993, Europe, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 0-87011-362-3), Pub date 1 December 1993, paperback
  • 1994, Europe, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-0691-8), Pub date ? March 1994, paperback

Other Resources

Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing: Proceedings of a Workshop at the National University of Singapore, December 1994 (Binding Unknown, 1996); Author: Kinya Tsuruta, Naoya Shiga; ISBN 9810081146
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