Arnon Grunberg
Getuyobi wa itumo buru
Getuyobi wa itumo buru image
Published
2006
Publisher
Soshisha, Tokyo
Language
Japanese
ISBN
4-7942-0962-2/4-7942-0961-4

Blue Mondays

The novel’s protagonist – named Arnon, like its author – is a young man on the run: expelled from high school and on the outs with his ailing father, he spends his days and nights living a vagabond’s life on the streets of Amsterdam.
Then he begins to visit prostitutes and in his fumbling, guileless, tender encounters with them we see what’s beneath his nonstop comic riffling.

Read a chapter in English here.

Also available as an audiobook.


Soshisha

Left: program book of a presentation of Dutch authors at the Tokyo Book Fair in April 2000.