Flowers of Grass
Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bedsheets. Flowers of Grass unfolds as the narrator reads them, asking himself if Shiomi's death was a sort of suicide, and learning the details of his late friend's two great loves: for a brother and sister, both of whom reject him.Fukunaga himself spent seven years recuperating from tuberculosis following World War II, and dre…
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Weitere Autoren: Tyler, Royall (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-714-9
- EAN: 9781564787149
- Produktnummer: 12317023
- Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 225 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.0 cm 294 g
- Gewicht: 294
Über den Autor
Royall Tyler has a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard, and an M.A. in Japanese History and Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. He has taught Japanese language and culture at, among other places, Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Oslo, in Norway.
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