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Description for The Sun Gods
Paperback. This poignant novel depicts a Japanese woman and her American "son" buffeted by the traumatic events surrounding World War II. Num Pages: 361 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 457.
Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom's growing discomfort with all things Japanese force Mitsuko and young Bill to leave Seattle and Tom behind for the Minidoka Internment Camp, unsure if they will ever return. Two decades later, memories of Minidoka and long-lost Mitsuko haunt Bill, sparking an arduous journey that leads him from Seattle's International District to newly reconstructed Japan ... Read more
Arriving in Seattle on the eve of World War II, Japanese-born Mitsuko falls for Tom, a widowed pastor, and becomes surrogate mother to his fair-haired American toddler, Bill. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor strains the newly formed family as U.S. government mandates and Tom's growing discomfort with all things Japanese force Mitsuko and young Bill to leave Seattle and Tom behind for the Minidoka Internment Camp, unsure if they will ever return. Two decades later, memories of Minidoka and long-lost Mitsuko haunt Bill, sparking an arduous journey that leads him from Seattle's International District to newly reconstructed Japan ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Chin Music Press United States
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781634059503
SKU
V9781634059503
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin, an American scholar and academic, is one of the foremost translators of Japanese literature. He has translated several works of fiction by popular novelist Haruki Murakami and is compiling an anthology of contemporary Japanese literature for Penguin. Rubin received his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago and taught at Harvard University and the University of ... Read more
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