A Novel of Contemporary Japan
by
Wahei Tatematsu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
**Winner of the Noma Prize for New Writers**
Set in rural Japan as the height of the bubble economy, Distant Thunder tells of a farming village gradually effaced by urbanization, corruption, and greed. After Matsuzo Wada has sold off the family's land and left his wife for another woman, his...