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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hunchback
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Hanchibakku. English
  name:
    name part: Ichikawa, Saō
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Barton, Polly
    name part: (Translator)
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: jpn
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 90 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no boundaries. She takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention ("If I were to live again, I'd want to be a highclass prostitute"). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor. To her surprise, and ours, her new nurse accepts the dare, unleashing a series of events that will forever change Shaka's sense of herself as a woman in the world. Hunchback has shaken Japanese literary culture with its skillful depiction of the physical body and unrepentant humor. Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, it's a feminist story about the dignity of an individual who insists on her right to make choices for herself, no matter the consequences. Formally creative and refreshingly unsentimental, Hunchback depicts the joy, anger and desires of a woman demanding autonomy in a world that doesn't always always grant it to people like her. Full of wit, bite and heart, this unforgettable novel reminds us all of the full potential of our lives, no matter the limitations we experience.
  note: Saou Ichikawa ; translated by Polly Barton.
  note: "Originally published in Japan by Bungeishunju, Tokyo, in 2023" --Title page verso.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    topic: Women with disabilities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women with disabilities
    topic: Social conditions
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Young women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Right to bodily autonomy
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Sperm donors
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
    topic: Social conditions
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Tokyo (Japan)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Disability
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / World Literature / Japan
  classification: PL871.5.C548 H3613 2025
  classification: [Fic]
  identifier: 9780593734711
  identifier: 0593734718
  identifier: 2024035614
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240802
    record change date: 20250818182402.4
    record identifier: in00005642413