A True Novel
of Minae Mizumura, Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
Description
A remaking of Emily BrontĂ«âs Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and successâdespite racial and class prejudiceâand an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japanâs westernization and the emergence of a middle class.  The winner of Japanâs prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 854 pages
- Publisher Other Press
- Publication Date November 12th 2013
- First Publication 10/30/02
- Language English
- ISBN 9781590512036
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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