If You Follow Me: A Fish-Out-of-Water Story with Dark Humor and Heart About a Year Abroad in Rural Japan - Couverture souple

Watrous, Malena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061732850 ISBN 13 : 9780061732850

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

“I love, love, love If You Follow Me. It’s

fearlessly honest, occasionally heartbreaking, and extremely funny, and I can’t

recommend it highly enough.” — Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling

author of Prep and American Wife

In Malena Watrous' beautifully

wrought and deftly written debut novel, we meet Marina, a young woman who has

come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. For

her, Shika is more than just her home as a “temporary person.” It’s also an

attempt to escape the reality that has followed her since her father committed

suicide only a year earlier.

Marina is a big city girl is in a

small town filled with off-beat characters, including an ambitious town

matchmaker, a dentist looking for free English lessons, a high school student who

idolizes Western rap artists, and finally Marina’s America-obsessed supervisor,

Hiro, a town leader whose friendship teaches her more than she ever expected.

If You Follow Me is

at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind

of love story that explores the tension of being the outsider in an intimate

community and the joy in finding that human nature is the same everywhere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Malena Watrous's short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Triquarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and Kyoto Journal. The winner of the Michener-Copernicus Award, she lives in San Francisco.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past . . . or anything else, for that matter.

If You Follow Me is at once a fish-out-of-water tale, a dark comedy of manners, and a strange kind of love story. Alive with vibrant and unforgettable characters—from an ambitious town matchmaker to a high school student-cum-rap artist wannabe with an addiction to self-tanning lotion—it guides readers over cultural bridges even as it celebrates the awkward, unlikely triumph of the human spirit.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061732850
• ISBN 13: 9780061732850
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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