Tales from a mountain cave : stories from Japan's northeast /
The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his past in the mines, villages and ports of the region. The stranger's hilarious, bawd...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Japanese. |
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London :
Thames River Press,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his past in the mines, villages and ports of the region. The stranger's hilarious, bawdy and touching narratives captivate the young man, but he begins to doubt their veracity. Finally, as the young man decides his own fate, the full truth about the stranger is revealed.Tales from a Mountain Cave is a translation of Hisashi Inoue's highly popular Shinshaku Tono Monogatari (新釈遠野物語) set in the Kamaishi area of Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan. Kamaishi was devastated by the tsunami of March 2011, and royalties on sales of this book will be donated to post-tsunami community support projects. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Japan by Chikuma Shobo, Tokyo" -- title page verso. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 pages) : map |
| ISBN: | 9780857281463 (electronic bk.) 0857281461 (electronic bk.) |