Brazil-Maru

Name: Brazil-Maru
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ISBN: 9781566890168

ISBN-10: 1566890160

ISBN-13: 9781566890168

Edition: N/A

Authors: Karen Tei Yamashita

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From Japanese-American writer Yamashita: a story of Japanese emigration set, like her first novel (Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, 1990), in Brazil. A range of characters, male and female, tell about a particular group of Japanese who emigrated to Brazil in the first decades of this century. Christian, well-educated, and reasonably affluent, they sought to establish communities where Christian and Japanese values could flourish. The group prospered, though not without cost, and it is this cost that's a major theme here. A secondary theme, suggested by the quotes from the philosopher Rousseau that precede each section, is the nature of education in a new world where emigrants' children…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 9/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English