The China Lover - Rilegato

Buruma, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1594201943 ISBN 13: 9781594201943

Casa editrice: Penguin Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Hiding her Japanese identity in U.S.-occupied Tokyo while performing as a Chinese beauty in censor-approved films, Yamaguchi Yoshiko moves to America, where she eventually marries a promising Japanese diplomat and becomes an influential television personality and politician. 30,000 first printing.

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"Evocative...brings her world vividly to life...always fascinating."
— The New York Times Book Review

“A lushly rendered piece of historical fiction...Buruma conveys the exhilaration and devastation of Japan's military folly and its resulting moral hangover through the lens of the film world at the time. With a sharp yet generous eye, Buruma explores the moods and sensibilities of the movie business in wartime Shanghai and postwar Tokyo. His novel seems to revel in and see through the filmmaking and its role in shaping memory and history. It's a cinematic story, in topic and form, made richer by the fertile emotional terrain of its fallible protagonists. The China Lover overflows with intriguing characters.... Buruma seems to know every nook and cranny of this landscape....His novel takes us deep into events of the 20th century and shows us with vivid strokes what it felt like”
—Los Angeles Times

“Lushly informative, cynically interesting.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“A truly fantastic subject for a novel”
—New York Observer

“In The China Lover, Buruma has captured the mutable contradictions of her life and made from them a kaleidoscope through which to see a giant swathe of 20th- century history from angles you've never viewed it before. It's a dizzying, dazzling experience.”
—The Seattle Times

“Buruma found his perfect subject in Yoshiko Yamaguchi, the nearly forgotten, once controversial Japanese singer and actress turned journalist and politician. The dark deeds of Tokyo gangsters, the endless horror of Hiroshima, the deep wounds of occupation, the sensuous power of film, and the strange circumstances that induced three Japanese gunmen to launch a terrorist attack on the Tel Aviv airport––all are facets in Buruma’s magnificent saga of war and prejudice, beauty and tyranny, sacrifice and survival.”
—Booklist

L'autore:

Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. His previous books include GodÂ’s Dust, Behind the Mask, The Missionary and the Libertine, Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania, Bad Elements and Murder in Amsterdam, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Current Interest Book. He was awarded the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honored him for his distinguished body of work and the 2008 Erasmus Prize.

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• Editore: Penguin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201943
• ISBN 13: 9781594201943
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 392