I called him Necktie

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Milena Michiko Flašar: I called him Necktie (2014)

128 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-939931-14-6
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OCLC Number:
889640677

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"Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori--a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction--in his parents' home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can't bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives."--From publisher's web site.

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Subjects

  • Hikikomori
  • Young men
  • Middle-aged men
  • Social isolation
  • Unemployed
  • Fiction

Places

  • Tokyo (Japan)