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On Tokyo's edge : Gaijin tales from postwar Japan / Gordon Ball.
LIBRA PS3552.A4547 O5 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Gordon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Japan--Fiction.
- Noncitizens.
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Japan--Social conditions--1945---Fiction.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 138 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico : Red Mountain Press, [2017]
- Notes:
- "These twenty-three short stories reaffirm author Gordon Ball's absorption with, and illumination of, "vanished" people, places, and times. Following on the heels of three memoirs, On Tokyo's Edge re-creates the texture of life among a rarefied group of relatively isolated foreigners in American-Occupied Japan and the decade following Occupation. Peopling these interrelated short fictions are a great range of vivid characters, including schoolmates, lovers, military men, chemistry teachers, maids, a lustful preacher, and a missionary of exemplary character. Many of the tales focus on young Robert La Salle, suddenly transplanted at age five to a culture 8,000 miles distant and who, as year follows year, confronts levels of "foreignness" within himself and his family as well as the strange larger world around him."--Publisher's website.
- ISBN:
- 9780997310207
- 0997310200
- OCLC:
- 968773576
- Publisher Number:
- 99975059067
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