The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
by:
Ralph Cosham (author)
Pico Iyer (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441785299 (1441785299)
Publish date: April 1st 2013
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Cultural,
Religion,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Buddhism,
Japanese Literature
it's generally understood in Japan-specialist circles that books on Japan, and indeed Japanese authored fiction, generally fall into two categories: the books on the illusion of Japan (1) or the books on the gritty reality (2). it's considered a mark of taste to prefer the latter; you are 'daring,' ...
Iyer moves to Kyoto, Japan to write. While there, he meets a young Japanese wife and mother, as anxious to practice her English as he was to practice his Japanese. Thus a relationship ...