A Spring Like Any Other by Takashi Tsujii (.ePUB)
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A Spring Like Any Other by Takashi Tsujii, Beth Cary (translator)
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Overview: What is it like to be one of the wealthiest, most successful men on earth? Takashi Tsujii is the pseudonym of Seiji Tsutsumi, poet and novelist and founder of the Saison Group—the giant conglomerate with farflung retailing, travel, financial, and other operations—so he is in a position to know. His novel A Spring Like Any Other sensitively explores the life of an outwardly privileged, inwardly conflicted man, the book’s middle-aged narrator Nishigaki Junzō.
In a powerful stream of reminiscence and reflection, Junzō gives us both a searing self-portrait and an intimate look at an affluent Japanese family in disarray. He evokes his dual life as leading businessman and writer, conjures up memories of his tyrannical father and his own rebellious, youthful leftist activism, and lays bare his struggles to connect with his lover, his defiant sister, and her troubled son. A melancholy and beguiling book, A Spring Like Any Other vividly portrays a man striving to reconcile different and sometimes seemingly incompatible roles and responsibilities. Winner of Japan’s Taiko Hirabayashi Prize, it is as moving as it is distinctive.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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