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Yokomitsu Riichi (1898–1947) is not as well known as his famous contemporaries – Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata. Meanwhile, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was considered the number one prose writer in Japan, the “king of the modern novel”, and some contemporaries even called him a literary deity. The action of his most famous novel, Shanghai, takes place in Shanghai, China, on the eve of the Revolution of 1925–1927. At that dangerous time, Shanghai fascinated and attracted adventurers from all over the world – Japanese, British, Americans, French, Indians, Russian monarchists fleeing Russia. The novel’s characters include communists and Marxists, cosmopolitans and patriots, bandits, rebels and punishers. In the boiling cauldron of this eastern Babylon, they trade and plunder, feast and starve, love and kill. Anything can happen here – and it does…
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