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Ichigensan - The Newcomer

Ichigensan - The Newcomer

Zoppetti, David
Sminkey, Takuma

Hardcover

RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0955921945
ISBN13: 9780955921940
Publisher: Ozaru Books (BJ Translations Ltd)
Published: Mar 1 2011
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ichigensan is a novel which can be enjoyed on many levels - as a delicate, sensual love story, as a depiction of the refined society in Japan's cultural capital Kyoto, and as an exploration of the themes of alienation and prejudice common to many environments, regardless of the boundaries of time and place. Unusually, it shows Japan from the eyes of both an outsider and an 'internal' outcast, and even more unusually, it originally achieved this through sensuous prose carefully crafted by a non-native speaker of Japanese. The fact that this best-selling novella then won the Subaru Prize, one of Japan's top literary awards, and was also nominated for the Akutagawa Prize is a testament to its unique narrative power. The story is by no means chained to Japan, however, and this new translation by Takuma Sminkey will allow readers world-wide to enjoy the multitude of sensations engendered by life and love in an alien culture.

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