Kōji Tokō (International) assertion Kōji Tokō i(A144928 works by) (birth name: 都甲・幸治)
Born: Established: 1969 ;
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3 31 y separately published work icon Vernon God Little D. B. C. Pierre , ( trans. Kōji Tokō with title Vaanon Goddo Ritoru : Shi o meguru 21 seiki no kigeki )with title ヴァーノン・ゴッド・リトル : 死をめぐる21世紀の喜劇 ) Tokyo : Village Books , 2007 Z1067461 2003 single work novel humour
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Kōji Tokō with title 夷狄を待ちながら ) Tokyo : Shueisha , 1991 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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