When I whistle : a novel / Shusaku Endo ; translated by Van C. Gessel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996

Contributor:

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Kuchibue o fuku toki. English

口笛をふく時. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059423

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--Translations into English.

Japanese fiction.

Medical fiction.

Cancer--Patients--Fiction.

Cancer--Patients.

Japan--Fiction.

Japan.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Physical Description:

273 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Taplinger, 1980.

Summary:

'When I Whistle' is a rich and absorbing novel set in two worlds- the world of pre-War Japan and the contemporary one of a big hospital with its professional rivalries. Ozu, a middle-aged businessman, has a chance encounter which brings back haunting memories. As Ozu recaptures the past, the reader is caught in the spell of a simpler and more humane time. In perfect couterpoint the story unfolds as Ozu relives the past while his son Eichi, a young house surgeon, pursues his ambitious and materialistic machinations to unseat his rivals. Gradually, the past and the present converge in a powerful and moving climax.

Notes:

Translation of: Kuchibue o fuku toki.

"First published in paperback in 1980"--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

ISBN:

080088244X

9780800882440

OCLC:

10423264