From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo - Rilegato

Field, Norma

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ISBN 10: 0520208447 ISBN 13: 9780520208445

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1997

Riassunto

The daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I. recounts her return to Japan in 1995 to tend to her dying grandmother in a free-form memoir and meditation on contemporary Japan, family relations, and human desire. UP.

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L'autore:

Norma Field is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, and author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End (1991) and The Splendor of Longing in "The Tale of Genji" (1987).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Norma Field's free-form memoir has the excitement of Picasso's cubism and the aching sweetness of a Japanese folk song. Her salute to her grandmother is a love poem to all those old ones who have survived the storm and are dying with grace."—Studs Terkel

"Norma Field is marvelous on the harder edges of 'peace and prosperity.' I like her lambent style, her Janus-facing cultural insights, and her power to create a scene, to move her reader as well as to challenge and instruct."—Marilyn Young, author of The Vietnam Wars

"That life is reponsible to and for its time, that families and nations have histories entangled in pain: this is the insight at the heart of Norma Field's sad and honest book."—Edwin Cranston

"What I loved about 'From My Grandmother's Bedside' was the way the author's mother and grandmother come to seem mythic by the end. They become larger than life, and through the power of Norma Field's writing, they enlarge the reader as well. This book should serve to remind each of us that by allowing ourselves to be led through our daily existence by our innate dignity and courage, we can at the end of our lives look back and say we have achieved a type of greatness."—Cynthia Kadohata, author of In the Heart of the Valley of Love

"Norma Field's vignettes are as full of astute illuminations as they are sustained, throughout, by a poignant lyricism. She makes autobiographical writing seem deceptively easy. That ease is, in fact, the mark of a consummate writer."—Rey Chow

"I love the specificities of this book—the transitional clack and clatter of wooden clogs on paved Tokyo streets, electric futon dryers, an air-raid shelter camouflaged by azaleas and fragrant daphnes, awkward pronouns of commitment and blame in a Nagasaki Day speech, a baby toothbrush inserted tenderly between the thin lips of a dying grandmother. This is the komorebi—the spilling sunlight—that Norma Field shines on postwar Japan."—Cathy Davidson

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520208447
• ISBN 13: 9780520208445
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 204