Shizuko's Daughter

Shizuko's Daughter
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781466876743
ISBN-13 : 1466876743
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shizuko's Daughter by : Kyoko Mori

Download or read book Shizuko's Daughter written by Kyoko Mori and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A New York Times Notable Book After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

No Longer Human

No Longer Human
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0811204812
ISBN-13 : 9780811204811
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis No Longer Human by : 太宰治

Download or read book No Longer Human written by 太宰治 and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.

Blue Nippon

Blue Nippon
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 082232721X
ISBN-13 : 9780822327219
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blue Nippon by : E. Taylor Atkins

Download or read book Blue Nippon written by E. Taylor Atkins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Leaves

Lost Leaves
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780824863395
ISBN-13 : 0824863399
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Lost Leaves by : Rebecca L. Copeland

Download or read book Lost Leaves written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of women writers but for the brilliant exception of Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896). Rebecca Copeland challenges this claim by examining in detail the lives and literary careers of three of Ichiyo's peers, each representative of the diversity and ingenuity of the period: Miyake Kaho (1868-1944), Wakamatsu Shizuko (1864-1896), and Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933). In a carefully researched introduction, Copeland establishes the context for the development of female literary expression. She follows this with chapters on each of the women under consideration. Miyake Kaho, often regarded as the first woman writer of modern Japan, offers readers a vision of the female vitality that is often overlooked when discussing the Meiji era. Wakamatsu Shizuko, the most prominent female translator of her time, had a direct impact on the development of a modern written language for Japanese prose fiction. Shimizu Shikin reminds readers of the struggle women endured in their efforts to balance their creative interests with their social roles. Interspersed throughout are excerpts from works under discussion, most never before translated, offering an invaluable window into this forgotten world of women's writing.

Polite Lies

Polite Lies
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780449004289
ISBN-13 : 0449004287
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Polite Lies by : Kyoko Mori

Download or read book Polite Lies written by Kyoko Mori and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.

Shizuko's Daughter

Shizuko's Daughter
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Publisher : Turtleback
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 0606071539
ISBN-13 : 9780606071536
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shizuko's Daughter by : Kyoko Mori

Download or read book Shizuko's Daughter written by Kyoko Mori and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

One Bird

One Bird
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781466876736
ISBN-13 : 1466876735
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis One Bird by : Kyoko Mori

Download or read book One Bird written by Kyoko Mori and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I try to see him among a migrating flock--he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallowed in the clash of waves and the commotion of many birds flying. "Tell me the truth," demands fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu as her mother hurriedly packs. But her mother refuses to admit that she is leaving forever--leaving her husband to his mistress, her home to her silent, resentful mother-in-law, her daughter to survive, if she can. Angry at everyone's polite lies, Megumi realizes that she has a secret of her own: Even though she goes to church, to Bible study class, and to the Christian Girls' Academy, she no longer believes in God. Only Dr. Mizutani, the "spinster lady" veterinarian, tells the truth, and she warns that single birds without their mothers often die. In One Bird, a coming-of-age novel about mothers and daughters, about best friends, boyfriends, and families, Kyoko Mori uses folktales, images of birds, and details of bird life to explore the bonds of love that go deeper than lies. As Megumi learns how to care for injured waxwings, crows, sparrows, and one abandoned grosbeak, she begins her own flight toward truth, and toward home.