Homecoming by Jiro Osaragi (.ePUB)
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Homecoming by Jirō Osaragi, Brewster Horwitz (translator)
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Overview: Homecoming, written by one of Japan’s most admired novelists, offers an extraordinary reading experience that shows what postwar Japan looked and felt like to a Japanese who thought his world and his life were finished. By colorfully contrasting the old and the new, it brings Japan today very much alive for Western readers. Jiro Osaragi dramatizes this contrast through his central character, Kyogo, who was forced into exile many years before the war by a scandal. His wife married again for the sake of their daughter, this time an opportunistic professor who pretended to liberalism but secretly collaborated with the militarists.
No reader will come away from Homecoming without an entirely new and fresh picture of Japan. Aside from its entrancing story, the novel is notable for its vivid, sensual descriptions of exotic scenes and for its sharp characterizations of a gallery of Japanese, base and noble, weak and strong, contemptible and admirable.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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