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Embracing Family
Kojima Nobuo
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Description for Embracing Family
Hardback. Translator(s): Tanaka, Yukiko. Series: Japanese Literature Series. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Set during the U.S. Occupation following World War II, Embracing Family is a novel of conflict--between Western and Eastern traditions, between a husband and wife, between ideals and reality. At the opening of the book, Miwa Shunsuke and his wife are trapped in a strained marriage, subtly attacking one another in a manner similar to that of the characters in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? When his wife has an affair with an American GI, Miwa is forced to come to terms with the disintegration of their relationship and the fact that his attempts to repair it only exacerbate the ... Read more
Set during the U.S. Occupation following World War II, Embracing Family is a novel of conflict--between Western and Eastern traditions, between a husband and wife, between ideals and reality. At the opening of the book, Miwa Shunsuke and his wife are trapped in a strained marriage, subtly attacking one another in a manner similar to that of the characters in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? When his wife has an affair with an American GI, Miwa is forced to come to terms with the disintegration of their relationship and the fact that his attempts to repair it only exacerbate the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Series
Japanese Literature Series
Number of Pages
161
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564784056
SKU
V9781564784056
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Ref
99-15
About Kojima Nobuo
Nobuo Kojima is the author of more than thirty volumes of fiction, essays, and criticism. He has been awarded the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Junichiro Literary Prize, and the Minister of Education Prize. In addition to his own writing, he has translated the works of William Saroyan and J. D. Salinger, among others, into his native Japanese. Embracing Family is ... Read more
Reviews for Embracing Family
a brilliant examination of complexity ' -Charlie Dickinson, Hackwriters