A True Novel

A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Fiction & Literature, Cultural Heritage, Saga, Family Life
Cover of the book A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, Other Press
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Author: Minae Mizumura ISBN: 9781590515761
Publisher: Other Press Publication: November 12, 2013
Imprint: Other Press Language: English
Author: Minae Mizumura
ISBN: 9781590515761
Publisher: Other Press
Publication: November 12, 2013
Imprint: Other Press
Language: English

A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan
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A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.
 
The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

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A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan
** **
A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.
 
The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

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