The Thorn Puller Hardback
by Hiromi Ito
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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a womancaring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her agingparents in Japan.
As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these twostarkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrativeabout what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because ofher skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her.
Here she enrichesher semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanesefolklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture.
The result is a genericchimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocalmode of storytelling.
One throughline is a series of memories associated withthe Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date:23/02/2023
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- ISBN:9781737625322
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:300 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date:23/02/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781737625322