Strange Light Afar - Umezawa, Rui
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"A bitterly jealous brother, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice--the motives and pathologies underlying these traditional Japanese folktale characters are explored with haunting results."--Amazon.com.

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"A bitterly jealous brother, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice--the motives and pathologies underlying these traditional Japanese folktale characters are explored with haunting results."--Amazon.com.
Autorenporträt
RUI UMEZAWA is a storyteller, essayist and novelist. Born in Tokyo, he left Japan as a child when his father, a theoretical physicist, pursued career opportunities in Europe and North America. Rui studied comparative literature and has an M.A. from the University of Alberta. He is the author of a picture book, Aikös Flowers (illustrated by Yuji Ando). His adult novel, The Truth About Death and Dying (called ¿a dazzling tour-de-force¿ by Canadian Literature), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean).