About “Métaphysique des tubes”
According to Japanese belief described here, children up to age three are gods, or okosama, before falling from grace at their third birthday to join the rest of humanity. The novel follows a child who spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state before recovering from this early divinity.
Book details
- Published
- 2002
- Latest edition
- 2002 · ISBN 9780571220496
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