Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
by David Mura
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Author: David MuraEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-30
ISBN: 0802142397
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Grove Press
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Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoirTurning Japanesechronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese.Turning Japanesechronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own.Turning Japanesewas aNew York TimesNotable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
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