Books : Distant Thunder: A Novel of Contemporary Japan
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by: Wahei Tatematsu
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780804821209
ISBN: 0804821208
Label: Tuttle Publishing
Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1999-05
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Sales Rank: 1357979
Studio: Tuttle Publishing
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Rating: - simple, realistic descriptions of rural Japan combined with an engaging, attention-holding plot
Those who have lived or traveled extensively in Japan are familiar with how difficult it is to put into words the images and experiences that define our everyday reality. When writing a letter to relatives back home and trying to describe what things are like here, at some point we inevitably give up and conclude with something like, ". . . but I guess you just have to be here to understand it."
Words on a page may never be the same as real-life experience, but Tatematsu's writing comes ... Read More
Rating: - A solace of farming and love in the middle of moral decay
When the farmlands around you get smaller, the people around you tell you city-style life is better, and they essentially want to con you out of your money, there are two ways to cope: kissing butt, or kicking it.
Mitsuo Wada, a young farmer in Japan's countryside, chooses to do the latter as he struggles to keep his tomato-plantation hothouse afloat, and as his philandering father, greedy brother and bitchy tenement housewife neighbors seem to only look for themselves, Ayako, his life's ... Read More
Rating: - Distant Thunder by Wahei Tatematsu
One of the best Japanese novels I have in recent years, this book pulls back the curtain on a little-noticed part of Japan: the contemporary life of rural "inaka-mono," or those living in the countryside, who make up the majority of the nation. There are no kabuki, Zen or origami cliches here; nor does it deal with the more-recently-hackneyed themes of Japan as a bladerunner-esque neon-soaked cyberpunk dystopia. This is real stuff, down to earth and relevant. The subject is the trials and travails ... Read More
Rating: - Distant Thunder by Wahei Tatematsu
One of the best Japanese novels I have in recent years, this book pulls back the curtain on a little-noticed part of Japan: the contemporary life of rural "inaka-mono," or those living in the countryside, who make up the majority of the nation. There are no kabuki, Zen or origami cliches here; nor does it deal with the more-recently-hackneyed themes of Japan as a bladerunner-esque neon-soaked cyberpunk dystopia. This is real stuff, down to earth and relevant. The subject is the trials and travails ... Read More
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