Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (Books That Changed the World)

Synopsis

&“The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture&” (The New York Times). Award-winning poet David Mura&’s critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles 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 Japanese chronicles 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 Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. &“A dizzying interior voyage of self-discovery and splintered identity.&” —Chicago Tribune &“There is brilliant writing in this book, observations of Japanese humanity and culture that are subtly different from and more penetrating than what we usually get from Westerners.&” —The New Yorker &“Turning Japanese reads like a fascinating novel you can&’t put down . . . Mura&’s story is a universal one, and one that is accessible to everyone, even those whose experience in the U.S. is not that of a person of color.&” —Asian Week &“[Mura] paints a portrait of Japan that is rich and satisfying . . . a refreshingly kindly and tolerant study, a powerful antidote to the venomous anti-Japanese mood that seems, distressingly, to be seizing some corners of the American mind.&” —Conde Nast Traveler

Copyright:

2006

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

400 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780802196026

Publisher:

Grove Atlantic

Date of Addition:

08/25/23

Copyrighted By:

David Mura

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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