The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410404763 (1410404765)
Publish date: March 1st 2008
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 665
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...