A True Novel
| Author | : Minae Mizumura |
| Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 883 |
| Release | : 2013-11-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781590515761 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1590515765 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.
