Hiromi Ito The Thorn Puller (Paperback)

Further DetailsTitle: The Thorn PullerCondition: NewEAN: 9781737625308ISBN: 9781737625308Publisher: Stone Bridge PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/26/2023Description:

Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize

Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.

The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a womancaring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her agingparents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these twostarkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrativeabout what it means to live and die in a globalized society.

Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.

Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 139mmAuthor: Hiromi ItoTranslator: Jeffrey AnglesContributor: Jeffrey Angles (Translated by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2023

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