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The Thorn Puller
Engelsk Paperback
The Thorn Puller
Engelsk Paperback

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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize

Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.

The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society.

Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
300
ISBN-13:
9781737625308
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
173762530X
Udg. Dato:
26 jan 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
204mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
Stone Bridge Press
Oplagsdato:
26 jan 2023
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge