Minae Mizumura: 3 books
by Minae Mizumura
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a...
Inheritance from Mother
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her.
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Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met...
A True Novel
A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
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...