O Japão é Um Lugar Estranho
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789728955915
Publish date: February 2009
Publisher: Tinta da China
Pages no: 174
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Cultural,
Media Tie In,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Anime,
Japanese Literature
I don't know what to say about this book. I was hoping it was more a present cultural look rather than a high fluent justification for a trip to Japan. The book initially began as a journey with his son into a culture that he enjoyed but a certain part of the culture which was more modern whereas ...
I enjoyed it in spite of the 'wrongness' (not always where the author situates it) but I'm not sure that I understand why he wrote it.
While I am not or ever have been into manga or anime, I did go through a phase of severe obsession with Japanese style and music a few years back. This was the time when I was an obnoxious preteen who wore out a stick of black eyeliner in a month and who refused to look or be happy ever. Looking bac...
Peter Carey is a novelist (I haven't read his novels yet) and he has a 12 year old who is seriously interested in manga. Charley is shy and hard to reach as he slips into preteen age. Peter proposes a visit to Japan to learn more about manga, facilitated by his contacts in publishing, and as a way o...
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