Custom House
The central event of Francis King's novel, originally published in 1961, is a savage and seemingly inexplicable murder around which revolves a panorama of life in Japan that is impressive in its complexity and insight. Although The Custom House is in some ways a saddening book, with its recurrent misunderstandings between West and East and its picture of people forever straining to rise above their limitations, it is never solely tragic, flashing through its length with passages of delightful wit and humour. In his central characters-the English teacher, Knox; the pathetic Australian missionary, Welling; Sanae, the Japanese girl with whom he…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5783-7
- EAN: 9781447257837
- Produktnummer: 15600936
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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