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Minatoya, Lydia
by The Strangeness of Beauty
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684853620
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853628
- Seller
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About This Item
New York. 1999. June 1999. Simon & Schuster. Advance Reader's Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0684853620. 380 pages. paperback. Jacket art from a poster courtesy of Takamasa Yamada/Illustraor unknown. keywords: Literature Japan Asia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Etsuko Sone's sister dies in childbirth in Seattle's shabby Japantown, love for the precocious child catapults Etsuko back across the Pacific and into the austere samurai household of her mysterious mother, Chie - a woman who rejected Etsuko at birth. The dubious reconciliation is for the sake of little Hanae, that she might learn her Fuji heritage and the Zen lessons of humility, dignity, self-discipline, and grace. In Japan, Etsuko is the ultimate outsider: a returning emigrant in a land she left years before; a common woman thrust into a house of secrets and riches; a childless mother and a motherless daughter. As Etsuko and Hanae do their often quite comic best to adapt to life within Chie's samurai household, Japan is changing in dangerous ways. Worldwide economic strife strips Japan's people of food and clothing even as wartime preparations strip them of information and freedoms. Chie and Etsuko greet the mounting militarism with resistance, and when the imperial army cuts cruelly into Chinese Manchuria, accusations of treachery, of antipatriotism, begin to rain on the Fuji household. It is then that the women realize their separate independence is their common bond. It is then that Etsuko finds hidden strength to pursue meaning and beauty in a situation beyond her control. inventory #26296 ISBN: 0684853620.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26296
- Title
- Minatoya, Lydia
- Author
- The Strangeness of Beauty
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684853620
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853628
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Riverside, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1999
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