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A Lesson Before Dying - ¥400 (Between Oji and Nishi-sugamo Stations)
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A strong voice from the South in Black American literature.
This book illustrated how black men (and black women and black families) have been abused by the legal system.
However, it also is a moving account of resistance.
The world in this story is one that not many of us have experienced. There might a culture shock. But perhaps it is well worth experiencing.
The two central men (the teacher and the man on death row) in the story work themselves slowly and unwillingly into their roles, until there is a fit. Both move from a point of intense personal pain to a point of intense pain for all humanity. There is even a moment of trading places psychologically.
isbn 0375702709
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