On Tokyo's edge : Gaijin tales from postwar Japan /
These twenty-three short stories reaffirm author Gordon Ball's absorption with, and illumination of, "vanished" people, places and times. Following on the heels of three memoirs, On Tokyo's Edge recreates the texture of life among a rarefied group of relatively isolated foreigner...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico :
Red Mountain Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | These twenty-three short stories reaffirm author Gordon Ball's absorption with, and illumination of, "vanished" people, places and times. Following on the heels of three memoirs, On Tokyo's Edge recreates the texture of life among a rarefied group of relatively isolated foreigners in American-occupied Japan and the decade following occupation. Peopling these interrelated short fictions are a great range of vivid characters, including schoolmates, lovers, military men, chemistry teachers, maids, a lustful preacher and a missionary of exemplary character. Many of the tales focus on young Robert La Salle, suddenly transplanted at age five to a culture 8,000 miles distant and who, as year follows year, confronts levels of "foreignness" within himself and his family as well as the strange larger world around him. |
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| Physical Description: | 138 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780997310207 0997310200 |