A true novel /
Begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life, an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success, despite racial and class prejudice and a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Other Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | Begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life, an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success, despite racial and class prejudice and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. The book then widens into an examination of Japans westernization and the emergence of a middle class. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (854 pages) : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1590512030 (set : pbk. : cased) 9781590512036 (set : pbk. : cased) 1590515765 (ebk.) 9781590515761 (ebk.) |