Fish of the Seto Inland Sea

Pilgrim, Ruri

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Harper Collins, 1999

0002571412 / 9780002571418

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, . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Ruri Pilgrim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An extraordinary portrait of one family across the years of Japan's greatest changes; a loving, honest, moving biography of the author's mother. Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, living in a walled compound with their servants, following exactly the tradition inherited from their parents, with marriages arranged for the children, which continued up till World War II. By then her mother was married to an engineer and living in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. That period, with her mother's often funny, painful experiences of learning about the Chinese and Russians with whom she now lived with her growing family, and the war seen from her point of view, is fascinating. At the end of the war, the Japanese - women, children, everyone - had to escape, walking hundreds of miles to the coast. The family returned to a Tokyo where the society, the culture, the economy was entirely overturned. The Americans were everywhere, the Japanese were unemployed, and the ways of society that they had all known had vanished. And yet somehow Ruri's indomitable mother survived.…

Codice articolo 9780002571418-SECONDHAND

Titolo
Fish of the Seto Inland Sea
Autore
Pilgrim, Ruri
Editore
Harper Collins
Anno di pubblicazione
1999
Tipo di libro
Secondhand, Paperback
Rilegatura
Secondhand, Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0002571412
ISBN 13
9780002571418

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