Japanese Umbrella: and other stories
Writing of Francis King's 1961 novel about contemporary Japan, The Custom House, Penelope Mortimer praised its 'ferocious perception'. That widely-acclaimed book gave a view of the country which, in its revelation of the violence and brutality always present under a surface veneer of politeness and prettiness, was bound to shock and annoy many Japanophiles. This collection of short-stories, written in the two-year period following on the publication of The Custom House, shows that same penetrating insight into a civilisation in which politeness so often must do service for morality, but is at once blander and more affectionate in its approach…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5785-1
- EAN: 9781447257851
- Produktnummer: 15600929
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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