Barkong Pabrika ng Alimasag: Bersiyong Filipino ng Kanikōsen ni Takiji Kobayashi

by Takiji Kobayashi, Gonzalo Campoamor II (Translator)

Isinasalaysay ng nobelang Barkong Pabrika ng Alimasag ang karanasan ng mga manggagawa’t mangingisdang lulan ng Hakkō Maru, isang barkong humuhuli’t naglalata ng mga alimasag sa Hilagang Pasipiko sa Dagat ng Okhotsk na malapit sa baybayin ng Kamchatka. Malayo sa kani-kanilang bayang tinubuan ang mga walang-ngalang manggagawa’t mangingisda. Isa-isang ipinamalas ng awtor na si Takiji Kobayashi ang kanilang pagdurusa hanggang sa masapit nila ang rurok ng paghihirap at magdesisyong mag-alsa.

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1929

About the author

Takiji Kobayashi (小林 多喜二) was a Japanese author of proletarian literature.

Kobayashi was born in Odate, Akita, Japan and was brought up in Otaru, Hokkaidō. After graduating from the Otaru School of Higher Learning, which is the current Otaru University of Commerce, he worked at the Otaru branch of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank. His most famous work is Kanikōsen, or Crab-Canning Boat – a novel published in 1929. It tells the story of several different people and the beginning of organization into unions of fishing workers. He joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1931. The young writer was killed during a torture session by Tokkō police two years later, at age 29.