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The Undun
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ISBN13: 9798230111733
Publisher: Alwy Jones
Published: Jul 14 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Alwy Jones
Published: Jul 14 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Yuji has spent decades as a faceless civil servant, stamping forms and burying the pleas of Tokyo's invisible poor under polite paperwork and bureaucratic smiles. Now, with a hidden stomach cancer hollowing him out from within, Yuji drifts through neon bars and indifferent hospitals, searching for warmth in hostess clubs and borrowed laughter and finding only the stale echo of his own wasted years.
In a final quiet rebellion, Yuji fights the same corrupt system he once served, shaking a city hall that long ago learned how to forget its weakest. As he watches shovels break ground where only neglect once thrived, Yuji knows he cannot save himself, but perhaps he can leave behind a single patch of sunlight for those who come after.
A haunting, unflinching portrait of decay and stubborn redemption, The Undun asks whether one man's final act can matter in a world built to erase him.
A haunting, unflinching portrait of decay and stubborn redemption, The Undun asks whether one man's final act can matter in a world built to erase him.
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