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02990aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 7008295C209B11EABA878C2E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191217010151 008 180907t20192019cau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781611720518 020 $a 1611720516 035 $a (OCoLC)1050565033 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d NGU $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h jpn 043 $a a-ja--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/a-ja 050 4 $a PL855.A52 $b T3613 2019 082 04 $a 895.636 $2 23 100 1 $a Kanai, Mieko, $d 1947- $e author. 240 10 $a Tamaya. $l English 245 10 $a Oh, Tama! : $b a mejiro novel / $c Mieko Kanai ; translated from the Japanese by Tomoko Aoyama and Paul McCarthy. 250 $a First Stone Bridge Press edition. 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Stone Bridge Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 152 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a First published in 2014 by Kurodahan Press, Fukuoka, Japan. 500 $a Oh, Tama! describes the haphazard lives of Natsuyuki Kanemitsu and his loosely connected circle of dysfunctional acquaintances and family. Natsuyuki is prevailed upon by his friend Alexandre, an occasional porn-film actor, to adopt the very pregnant cat Tama, who gives birth and remains throughout the novel as a silent observer of her human hosts. Further complications arise surrounding the mystery of who the father of Alexandre's sister Tsuneko's unborn child is, with Tsuneko (a bar owner) happy to collect money from anyone who may be responsible. One of these possible dads turns out to be Natsuyuki's half-brother, abandoned and forgotten long ago as easily as Tama has parted with her kittens. A "fast and comedic novel," Oh, Tama! plays out against a backdrop of cramped apartments and cheap food and drink where everyone seems to have an opinion on film, photography, and fashionable French art theory. It is part of the author's esteemed series of "Meijiro" novels, named after the northwest area of Tokyo that so richly informs their urbanity and outlook. -- Publisher website. 505 0 $a Oh Tama! -- The gift -- Amanda Anderson's photographs -- Wandering soul -- Evanescence -- Balls of confetti -- On Oh, Tama! - In lieu of an afterward -- Afterword to the paperback edition (1999). 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 651 0 $a Tokyo (Japan) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Japan $z Tokyo. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204835 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 700 1 $a Aoyama, Tomoko, $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008035773 700 1 $a McCarthy, Paul, $d 1944- $e translator. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010162413 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7008295C209B11EABA878C2E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search