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The Plum Rains and Other Stories
John Givens
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Description for The Plum Rains and Other Stories
Hardcover.
It's Japan. The last decade of the 17th century. Men who lived by the sword find themselves without a vocation while women begin to confront new opportunities and threats hitherto unimaginable. The austere demands of the haikai poet are no match for the new popularity of urban performers, and the medieval samurai ethos has been replaced by that of the merchant and the shogun's bureaucrats. This colourful but remote world is portrayed in these stories. Japan's greatest poet Basho features in several of them. We also meet young 'peony girls' who yearn for a life outside the pleasure quarters; a ... Read more
It's Japan. The last decade of the 17th century. Men who lived by the sword find themselves without a vocation while women begin to confront new opportunities and threats hitherto unimaginable. The austere demands of the haikai poet are no match for the new popularity of urban performers, and the medieval samurai ethos has been replaced by that of the merchant and the shogun's bureaucrats. This colourful but remote world is portrayed in these stories. Japan's greatest poet Basho features in several of them. We also meet young 'peony girls' who yearn for a life outside the pleasure quarters; a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Liffey Press Dublin
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781905785766
SKU
V9781905785766
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99-10
About John Givens
John Givens studied art and Japanese literature in Kyoto for four years and worked in Tokyo for eight years as a writer and editor. He received an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he was also a Teaching/Writing Fellow. Givens has published three novels in the United States as well as numerous short stories and poems ... Read more
Reviews for The Plum Rains and Other Stories
'... fantastic, mesmerizing. The language is pristine, the pacing expertly controlled...' - William Litton, Editor, Wag's Revue