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Flowers of Grass (Japanese Literature Series)
Takehiko Fukunaga
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Description for Flowers of Grass (Japanese Literature Series)
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300. 225 pages. Flowers of Grass is Takehiko Fukunaga s fully realized portrait of a young man of fastidious intelligence and great sorrow, and shows us how it is possible, seeing reality from the side of death and despair, to still choose life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 17. Weight: 300.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787149
SKU
V9781564787149
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Ref
99-15
About Takehiko Fukunaga
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. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1757 to Royall Tyler and ... Read more
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