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Alive with history, myth, and wonder, "The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-century Canadian adventurer, whose strange confinement in a Japanese prison, beginning in 1848, is so vividly imagined by the narrator. Full of delightful tales and eccentric characters, and written with the delicacy of a brushstroke artist, "The City of Yes is suffused with warm humour, and with the intelligence and curiosity of a keen observer of life's riches and eccentricities.
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- Title The City of Yes
- Author Peter Oliva
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
- Date 1999
- ISBN 9780771068614 / 0771068611
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99226819
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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