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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview shows; he is content to let his works sell themselves. They do. His most celebrated book, Kirikirijin (People of Kirikiri), is an 834-page comic novel about an imaginary hill town in northern Japan that secedes from the rest of the nation. More than 850,000 copies have been sold in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magician of Language: Hisashi Inoue | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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