Japanese for Travellers
A Journey
Katie M. Kitamura(Author)
Hamish Hamilton Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 25. May 2006
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-241-14289-9 (ISBN)
Description
Katie Kitamura is speeding across Japan on a train to Osaka to visit her parents. The landscape and the journey evoke everything from her distant childhood memories to the tumultuous years in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. As she tries to reconcile the vibrancy of Japan's contemporary pop culture with the unrecounted trauma of its past, she also struggles to determine how she belongs in a country where, as a Japanese-American, she is at once an insider and an outsider. Spanning three generations of life in post-war Japan, and questioning collective memory and personal and national identity, "Japanese for Travellers" is a brave, thoughtful, and often very funny exploration of aspiration, belonging, decay and change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-14289-9 (9780241142899)
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Person
Katie Kitamura was born in 1979 and currently lives in California. Japanese for Travellers is her first book.