by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Minae Mizumura
This is a long and extremely fascinating book and it was a somehow intense read, so brace yourselves, this is going to be a long review – because A true Novel deserves nothing less. I want to start off by saying, that it would not do A true Novel justice to simply compare it with Brontës Wuthering...
Take Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, move the story to post-war Japan, stretch it to twice its original length, and you have A True Novel. The premise sounds great and the two-volume set is absolutely gorgeous. Looks can be deceiving however. Not only is this novel a chore to get through at times,...
Title: A True Novel Who Wrote it? Minae Mizumura wrote it in her native Japanese; Jessica Winters Carpenter translated it into English. Plot in a Box: Part memoir, part "true novel" — a traditional Japanese story type explained in the book — it's a rags-to-riches tale of a life begun in po...
Five stars for the first half of this novel. I am eagerly (and impatiently) waiting for the publisher to send me the second half.Don't be scared off by the page count. When I requested this book, I wasn't sure if I was up for almost 900 pages. But I flew threw the first half in 3 1/2 days, without r...
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