Grass for My Pillow by Maruya, Saiichi

Grass for My Pillow (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231126588)

Vendor: Saiichi Maruya
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$42.00
$42.00
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Grass for My Pillow by Maruya, Saiichi

Grass for My Pillow

$42.00
Grass for My Pillow by Maruya, Saiichi

Grass for My Pillow

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day events force into the light, confronting him with unexpected consequences of his refusal to conform twenty years earlier.

Author: Saiichi Maruya
ISBN-10: 0231126581
ISBN-13: 9780231126588
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.18h x 6.42w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2002 pg. 1350
New Yorker (The) 11/11/2002 pg. 189
By Saiichi Maruya
By Saiichi Maruya
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Saiichi Maruya is an award-winning novelist, translator, and critic. His novel Singular Rebellion was published in English to critical acclaim in 1986. He lives in Tokyo. Dennis Keene is one of the most respected translators of Japanese literature today. He has translated several of Maruya's books, including Singular Rebellion and A Mature Woman. He lives in Oxford, UK.

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