From the Fatherland with Love
Translated by Ralph McCarthy
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In a near-future Japan crippled by economic collapse, a squad of North Korean special forces lands in Fukuoka and takes the city. The Japanese government, paralyzed by bureaucracy and constitutional constraints, cannot respond. The Americans won't help. And the people of Fukuoka are left to figure out what occupation actually means when it happens to you. Ryu Murakami's longest novel is a political thriller, a satire of Japanese passivity, and a thought experiment about what would happen if a country that has outsourced its defence for sixty years suddenly had to defend itself. The answer is not heroic. A sprawling, furious novel about a nation that forgot how to fight — and about the ordinary people who discover, too late, that someone should have remembered.
