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Wasabi for Breakfast
Fourmiko Kometani
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Description for Wasabi for Breakfast
Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
"Wasabi for Breakfast" reintroduces best-selling Japanese author Foumiko Kometani's uniquely humorous voice to American readers. Kometani is rare among Japanese writers and cultural commentators in that she has lived in the United States for most of her adult life, bringing an outsider's--and woman's--perspective to both her adopted home and her native Japan. She lives her life in between cultures, and mines that gap to provide a thoroughly modern take on both societies.In "Family Business," Megumi, a long time resident of the United States, returns to Japan to visit her 87-year-old mother. After so many years living abroad, Megumi is almost ... Read more
"Wasabi for Breakfast" reintroduces best-selling Japanese author Foumiko Kometani's uniquely humorous voice to American readers. Kometani is rare among Japanese writers and cultural commentators in that she has lived in the United States for most of her adult life, bringing an outsider's--and woman's--perspective to both her adopted home and her native Japan. She lives her life in between cultures, and mines that gap to provide a thoroughly modern take on both societies.In "Family Business," Megumi, a long time resident of the United States, returns to Japan to visit her 87-year-old mother. After so many years living abroad, Megumi is almost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564788641
SKU
V9781564788641
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Fourmiko Kometani
Foumiko Kometani was born in Osaka in 1930 and studied to be a painter before emigrating to the United States in 1960. She became a writer in her late 40s, and has since written 16 books and has won Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, including two Shinjinsho Prizes, the Akutagawa Prize, and Women's Literature Prize. She lives in Pacific Palisades, ... Read more
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