The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Set in Japan, 1939, an epic novel of tradition and change, of loss and renewal, and above all of the enduring strength of family ties
Set in Japan, 1939, an epic novel of tradition and change, of loss and renewal, and above all of the enduring strength of family ties
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429919098 (1429919094)
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Family,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
World War II,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
At first I wasn't sure I'd like this because of the sumo wrestling stuff. Grunting, glaring fat men sporting diapers and topknots just don't send me anywhere I care to go. Fortunately, there's much more to the book than just sumo, and I ended up liking it quite a bit. I learned a lot about Japane...
Story about a Japanese family in WWII and for two decades afterwards, this one drags out all of the things I hate in a novel -- stale stereotypes, a lot of misinterpetations and little to keep me interested. Now that I've read three books by this author, I'm not going here again. For the longer revi...
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