Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Mockett, Marie Mutsuki

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ISBN 10: 0393352293 ISBN 13: 9780393352290

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

The author describes her journey visiting Zen priests and performing rituals after the death of her Japanese grandfather and her American father and her inability to bury them at her family's Buddhist temple near the Fukushima disaster site. Reprint.

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"An intriguing ... travelogue through a landscape of Japanese spiritual belief, with forays into history, folklore, and memoir. [Mockett] has the ability, fully available only to those on the margins, "to see through more than one set of eyes, if one learns to pay attention to one's environment." It is this gift of double-sightedness, of bringing to bear both the "dry" rationality of the West and the "sticky" sensibilities professed by the Japanese, that makes this the most interesting book so far to have come out of the disaster." -- Richard Lloyd Parry - New York Times Book Review "A fascinating, wide-reaching exploration." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Affecting ... effectively evokes the beauty of Japanese culture and the sorrow that swept the country in the tsunami's wake." -- San Jose Mercury News "Mockett skillfully knits together a portrait of loss and recovery, pulling together many individuals' experience of grief into a collective search for peace." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "An illuminating journey into grief and Japanese culture, a place that few would dare to venture." -- The Japan Times "Marie Mockett brought me into the high drama of the tsunami, through her most personal landscape, and into the awe of the eternal." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Devil's Highway "This illuminating journey through loss, faith, and perseverance ... gives the reader a rare view into one of the richest death cultures in the world." -- Library Journal, Starred review "Richly layered in culture and insight, Mockett takes us on a compelling and illuminating journey of the heart and soul." -- Gail Tsukiyama, author of A Hundred Flowers "A beautiful tale that is part evocative travelogue and part lyrical meditation on grief, this soulful and haunting book made me cry in a way I like to cry when reading a good book." -- Heidi W. Durrow, New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky "What a remarkable and moving book about traveling from one land to another, and learning different ways of coming to terms with death amid life. Engrossing and powerful, it speaks volumes about the many ways people grieve and live." --Will Schwalbe, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club

"Mockettt's book is a moving and lyrically written account of her physical and emotional journey to a side of Japan few of us are privileged enough ever to see."

--Literary Review

"[Mockett] has written an odd, revealing and at times very painful book, but one that is ultimately consoling."

--Belfast Telegraph

"[Mockett] sweeps away some of the stereotypes as she learns how the country is dealing with its collective grief through stoicism, denial, spiritual belief, and even humour." --New Internationalist

L'autore:

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's novel Picking Bones from Ash was shortlisted for the 2010 Saroyan Prize and the Asian American Literary Awards for Fiction and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, National Geographic and other publications.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393352293
• ISBN 13: 9780393352290
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316