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A carregar... American Fuji (2001)por Sara Backer
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was an amazingly delightful read. The story itself was beautifully crafted and interesting and compelling. The characters are all artfully drawn and credible and where intended, sympathetic or meanies but the real star of the book was Japan. No the Japan of postcards but the Japan of an American living there and dealing with Japan every day. It was mostly set in Summer and, frankly, I sweated through the entire story. I learned so much and enjoyed this journey enormously. This may very well be my best read of 2014. ( ) In this novel, Japan is shown the eyes of two interwoven POVs - a man whose son died in Japan, searching for answers in an utterly foreign country, and an American woman who chooses to make Japan her home. It deftly explores cultural difference and people's willingness to adapt to - and ability to understand - cultural norms when those norms are vastly different from one's own expectations. Interesting novel. I was really interested in the description of Japanese manners, thoughts and relationships. Sara Backer was able to convey all this without detracting from the story at all. I found it hard to put down. She created full and realistic characters that I came to care about. I wish there was a sequel to tell me what happens next with all these folks. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Japan itself is the comic hero of thissweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel. Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful" (Karen Joy Fowler) novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence-and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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