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A True Novel

Juliet Winters Carpenter

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan

A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

Language: English

Pages: 854

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Other Press

Release: November 12, 2013

ISBN: 1590512030

ISBN 13: 9781590512036

A True Novel

Juliet Winters Carpenter

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan

A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

Language: English

Pages: 854

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Other Press

Release: November 12, 2013

ISBN: 1590512030

ISBN 13: 9781590512036

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