Toriko Takarabe

Gebundenes Buch

Heaven and Hell

A Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood

Übersetzer: Birnbaum, Phyllis

Beschreibung

This autobiographical novel is a beautiful, chilling account of childhood in Manchukuo, the puppet state established by the Japanese in northeast China in 1932. As seen through the eyes of a precocious young girl named Masuko, the frontier town of Jiamusi and its inhabitants are by turns enchanting, bemusing, and horrifying.

Autor

Takarabe Toriko was born in 1933 in Niigata prefecture. Two months after her birth, she left with her parents to live in Manchukuo. Following repatriation with her family in 1946, she went on to become one of Japan’s most eminent poets. She is particularly noted for her evocations of her youth and has received numerous prizes for her work over a long career. Phyllis Birnbaum is a novelist, biographer, journalist, and translator. Her translation Confessions of Love, a novel by Uno Chiyo, won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Her most recent biography is Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780824875404
• ISBN-10: 0824875400
• Artikelnr.: 50756598