The Thorn Puller

di Hiromi Ito (Autore)

Jeffrey Angles (Traduttore)

Stone Bridge Press, 2023

Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been described as a "shaman of poetry" because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera-part poetry, part prose, part epic-a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the "thorns" of human suffering.

• Autore: Hiromi Ito
• Traduttore: Jeffrey Angles
• Editore: Stone Bridge Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 139 mm
• EAN: 9781737625308

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