The Dream of Water: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Mori, Kyoko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0449910431 ISBN 13 : 9780449910436

Editeur : Random House Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

The Dream of Water: Ballentine Books Edition In this extraordinary memoir, the acclaimed author of Shizuko's Daughter travels from America back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind. "Mori creates beautiful scenes even as she uncovers painful truths".--Kirkus Reviews.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint."
--The Wall Street Journal
In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.
Throughout her seven-week trip, Kyoko struggles with her ever-present past and the lasting guilt over her mother's death. Although she meets with beloved cousins and other relatives, she agonizes over the frustrating relationship she barely maintains with her fierce father and selfish stepmother. Searching for answers, Kyoko attempts to find a new understanding of what her father is really like, and how it has affected her own place in two distinct worlds. As her time to leave draws near, Kyoko begins to understand that her family connections may be a powerful cry of the heart, but it is the new world that has given her escape from a lonely past and the power to believe in herself.
"[A] COMPELLING MEMOIR . . . LYRICAL."
--Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer
"ASTONISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL . . . Through the clarity filters the beauty of a large heritage that Mori is by now too American to share, but still Japanese enough to appreciate its redeeming value and to be in some measure restored by it."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"MAGICAL . . . ENLIGHTENING."
--San Francisco Chronicle

Biographie de l'auteur :

Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home; Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures; and The Dream of Water. Mori’s essay “Yarn” was selected for The Best American Essays 2004 and Polite Lies was shortlisted for PEN’s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Random House Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449910431
• ISBN 13: 9780449910436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288