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The Thorn Puller

Af: Hiromi Ito Engelsk Paperback

The Thorn Puller

Af: Hiromi Ito 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.

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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.

Produktdetaljer
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): Hiromi Ito
Forfatter(e) Hiromi Ito


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781737625308


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 300


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 204mm


Højde 139mm


Udg. Dato 26 jan 2023


Oplagsdato 26 jan 2023


Forlag Stone Bridge Press

Kategori sammenhænge