Richard Wiley

SOLDIERS IN HIDING

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It's Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo's lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines. Their perilous attempts to remain neutral in a conflict where their loyalties are deeply divided are shattered when Jimmy is killed by the commanding officer for refusing to shoot an American prisoner. The deed then falls to Teddy. Thirty years later, Teddy is married to Jimmy's widow, father to his son, a star on Japanese TV - and still wrestli… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Soyinka, Wole (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-9766311-3-2
EAN: 9780976631132
Produktnummer: 22237020
Verlag: Hawthorne Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 205 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.3 cm 318 g
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Richard Wiley won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Best American Fiction for Soldiers in Hiding, his first novel. He has lived and taught in Korea, Japan, Kenya, and Nigeria, and is the author of Fools' Gold, Festival for Three Thousand Maidens, Indigo, and Ahmed's Revenge. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Wiley is also on the executive board of the North American Network of Cities of Asylum.