Slow Boat

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2002-nen no surō bōto by FURUKAWA Hideo

Copyright © 2006 by FURUKAWA Hideo

Chugoku-yuki no surō bōto RMX by FURUKAWA Hideo

Copyright © 2003 by FURUKAWA Hideo

English Translation copyright © 2017 by David Boyd

English translation rights arranged with FURUKAWA Hideo through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo

First published by Pushkin Press in 2017

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Centre for Literary Translation and the Nippon Foundation

ISBN 978 1 782273 29 5

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