The Republic of Uzupis
- 作者:Bruce (TRN)/ Fulton,Hailji/ Fulton,Ju-Chan (TRN)
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2014-10-14
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:1628970650
- ISBN13:9781628970654
- 裝訂:平裝 / 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm / 普通級 / 譯本
Uupis ("on the other side of the river") is, in reality, a neighborhood in Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to travel back to the town of his birth in order to bury his father’s ashes there--in a place that might not really exist. In a literary tradition dominated by social realism, The Republic of Uupis is a unique work of melancholy, Murakami-esque whimsy.