American Fuji - Couverture souple

Backer, Sara; Bacjer, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 042518336X ISBN 13 : 9780425183366

Editeur : Berkley Pub Group, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Sara Backer

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: Berkley Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 042518336X
• ISBN 13: 9780425183366
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible