“Shanghai” Riichi Yokomitsu Set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese national movement that occurred in Shanghai, China in 1925, this novel depicts the anguish of a single Japanese man living there, adrift and wandering. He contemplates death daily, and has encounters with dance hall girls and bathhouse attendants. There is a dramatic encounter and parting with Fang Qiulan, a female fighter of the Chinese Communist Party. Through a novel writing style that pursues the characters from both a visual and psychological perspective, the novel conveys the deep breath of Shanghai, an international city on the eve of an unsettling war. This is a pioneering urban novel and a representative work of the early Showa era's New Sensationalist literary movement. #RiichiYokomitsu #YokomitsuRiichi #Books #JapaneseLiterature/NovelsAndStories