Praise for Tokyo Ueno Station and Yu Miri

"Tokyo Ueno Station?is?a?dream:?a?chronicle?of?hope,?loss,?where?we've?been?and?where we're?going.?That?Yu?Miri?could?conjure?so?many?realities?simultaneously?is?nothing?short of?marvelous.?The?novel?astounds,?terrifies,?and?make?the?unseen?concrete--entirely tangible?and?perennially?effervescent,?right?there?on?the?page." ?Bryan?Washington, author of Lot and Memorial

"Glorious."??New York Times Book Review

"[A]?relatively slim novel that packs an enormous emotional punch, thanks to Yu's gorgeous, haunting writing and Morgan Giles' wonderful translation....?Yu does a magnificent job exploring the effects of all kinds of loss on the human psyche.?Tokyo Ueno Station?is a stunning novel, and a harsh, uncompromising look at existential despair."??NPR

"Poetic...?How?Kazu?comes?to?be?homeless,?and?then?to?haunt?the?park,?is?what?keeps?us reading,?trying?to?understand?the?tragedy?of?this?ghostly?everyman.?Deftly?translated?by Morgan?Giles...?It?is?an?urgent?reminder?of?the?radical?divide?between?rich?and?poor?in postwar?Japan." ?The Guardian

"Spare, indelible."??O, the Oprah magazine

"A?novel of the world we all share ? not what we expect from a ghost story but frightening all the same."??Rumaan Alam, Washington Post

“Coolly meditative, subtly spectral… Yu’s spare, empathetic prose beautifully expresses Kazu’s perspective on the passage of time; he feels a ‘constant absence from the present, an anger toward the future.’ This slim but sprawling tale finds a deeply sympathetic hero in a man who feels displaced and longs for connection after it’s too late.” ?★Publishers Weekly, STARRED review★
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“Restrained and mature. A gemlike, melancholy novel infused with personal and national history.” ?★Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review★
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“A surreal fable of splintered families, disintegrating relationships, and the casual devaluation of humanity.” ?★Booklist, STARRED review★

"A?radical?and?deeply?felt?work?of?fiction,?psychogeography?and?history?all?at?once, tapping?us?straight?into?the?lifeblood?of?a?Tokyo?we?rarely?see:?Tokyo?from?the?margins, rooted?in?the?city's?most?vulnerable?and?least?visible?lives?-?and?deaths." ?Elaine?Castillo. author of America Is Not the Heart

"One?thing?Yu?can?do?is?write.?She?is?simultaneously?a?social?outcast?and?a?literary?star,?a dark,?brooding?presence?on?the?bookshelves.?A?creative?genius." ?New York Times

"Yu, an ethnic Korean in Japan, is no stranger to modern society’s traps driven by nationalism,capitalism, classism, sexism. Her anglophoned latest (gratitude to translator Giles for providing fluent accessibility) is a surreal fable of splintered families, disintegrating relationships, and the casual devaluation of humanity."??Booklist (Starred Review)