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The Thorn Puller
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781737625322
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: Jan 10 2023
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki
Shikibu Prize
Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.
The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society.
Ito has been described as a shaman of poetry because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera--part poetry, part prose, part epic--a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the thorns of human suffering.
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