American Fuji - Couverture rigide

Backer, Sara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0399146911 ISBN 13 : 9780399146916

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Backer Sara

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

?Japan itself is the comic hero of American Fuji?sweet and funny, sad and inspiring.?

Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful" (Karen Joy Fowler) novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence-and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Alex Torn, amerykanski psycholog, przyjezdza do Japonii, by wyjasnic tajemnicze okolicznosci smierci syna. Pomaga mu, poczatkowo wbrew wlasnej woli, Gabriela Stanton - atrakcyjna rozwódka po przejsciach, zatrudniona w japonskiej firmie organizujacej ekscentryczne pogrzeby. Poszukujac prawdy, Alex usiluje odnalezc sie w innej, kompletnie obcej kulturze. Codziennosc zdumiewa. Jakze wiec trafne okazuja sie slowa jego syna : "Przygotuj sie na zaskoczenie. To Japonia..."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0399146911
• ISBN 13: 9780399146916
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 373
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible