This is the first English translation of a Japanese memoir which was originally published in 1949 as Nagareru Hoshiwa Ikiteiru by Tei Fujiwara. This book became a bestseller with forty-six print runs, with versions in film and television.
Dump is where everything ends up, waste, scrap, rubbish, and people. Lives can be made sifting through that which civilisation has thrown out, and bacon earned. Yet one man wants more, he wants to leave, and a lot of people are willing to stop him.
A catastrophic series of events which results in the worldwide shut down of numerous critical infrastructural technologies and a slew of deaths makes mankind question whether the quest to further itself has gone too far
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