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From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
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| #2992395 in Books | 1997-11-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .88 x5.29 x8.33l, | File type: PDF | 204 pages||0 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Postwar Tokyo????|By Retired DODDS teacher|I purchased this book because "Sketches of Postwar Tokyo" was of interest. I was very disappointed because my idea of "Postwar Tokyo" is Tokyo shortly after the war. If I wrote a book "Sketches of Postwar U.S.", it would be the United States from 1945 until 1950. It's quite a stretch to talk about Japan 50 years later and call it pos|.com |Japan is not what you would call a direct culture. Refined through centuries of close living, honed over the years to a subtle edge, Japanese communication tends toward the gentle allusion and the discreet sign as opposed to the blunt, brash, in-your-face
From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor, returned to Japan in 1995 to tend to her slowly dying grandmother, who had been rendered speechless by multiple strokes. What she finds—both in the memories o...
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