Tokyo Ueno Station (novel)

Tokyo Ueno Station
First edition cover (Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2014)
AuthorYū Miri
Original titleJR Ueno-Eki Kōenguchi (JR上野駅公園口)
TranslatorMorgan Giles
LanguageJapanese
Set inTokyo
PublisherKawade Shobō Shinsha
Publication date
2014
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
2019
AwardsNational Book Award for Translated Literature (2020)

Tokyo Ueno Station (Japanese: JR上野駅公園口, Hepburn: JR Ueno-Eki Kōenguchi) is a 2014 novel by Zainichi Korean author Yū Miri.

The novel reflects the author's engagement with historical memory and margins by incorporating themes of a migrant laborer from northeastern Japan and his work on Olympic construction sites in Tokyo, as well as the 11 March 2011 disaster.[1] In November 2020, Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature for the English translation by translator Morgan Giles.[2][3]

  1. ^ Iwata-Weickgenannt, Kristina (2019). "The roads to disaster, or rewriting history from the margins—Yū Miri's JR Ueno Station Park Exit". Contemporary Japan. 31 (2): 180–196. doi:10.1080/18692729.2019.1578848. S2CID 166752041.
  2. ^ "'Tokyo Ueno Station' by Yu Miri wins U.S. book award". The Japan Times. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  3. ^ Alter, Alexandra (19 November 2020). "Charles Yu Wins National Book Award for 'Interior Chinatown'". The New York Times.