A Dark Night's Passing

A Dark Night's Passing

infobox Book |
name = A Dark Night's Passing
title_orig =
translator = Edwin McClellan


image_caption =
author = Shiga Naoya
cover_artist =
country = Japan
language = Japanese
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Fontana Press (Eng. trans. UK paperback)
release_date = 1921 - 1937
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 496 pp (Eng trans. paperback edition)

isbn = NA (orig.) & ISBN 0-00-617790-5 (Eng trans. paperback edition)
preceded_by =
followed_by =

A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路 An'ya Kōro) is the only full-length novel by Japanese writer Shiga Naoya. It was written in serialized form and published in Kaizo in between 1921 and 1937. It candidly follows the experiences of a young Japanese bachelor.

English translation: cite book | author=Shiga Naoya, Trans. Edwin McClellan | title=A Dark Night's Passing | publisher=Kodansha America | year=1993 - reissue | id=ISBN 0-87011-362-3

Release details

*1921, Japan, ? (ISBN NA), Pub date ? ? 1921, hardback (First edition, Japanese)
*1990, UK, Fontana Press (ISBN 0-00-617790-5), Pub date ? May 1990, paperback (Eng. trans.)
*1993, Europe, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 0-87011-362-3), Pub date 1 December 1993, paperback
*1994, Europe, Kodansha Europe (ISBN 4-7700-0691-8), Pub date ? March 1994, paperback

Other Resources

Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing: Proceedings of a Workshop at the National University of Singapore, December 1994 (Binding Unknown, 1996); Author: Kinya Tsuruta, Naoya Shiga; ISBN: 9810081146


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