A True Novel
A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Fiction & Literature, Cultural Heritage, Saga, Family Life
| Author: | Minae Mizumura | ISBN: | 9781590515761 |
| Publisher: | Other Press | Publication: | November 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Other Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Minae Mizumura |
| ISBN: | 9781590515761 |
| Publisher: | Other Press |
| Publication: | November 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Other Press |
| Language: | English |
A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan
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A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.
The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan
** **
A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.
The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
