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American Fuji: A Novel - Softcover

Backer, Sara

 
9780425230091: American Fuji: A Novel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0425230090 ISBN 13: 9780425230091
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009

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Japan itself is the comic hero of this sweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel.

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sara Backer was the first American and the first woman to serve as visiting professor of English at Japan's Shizuoka University. An early draft of American Fuji was named a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Competition, and a play she wrote as a Djerassi artist in residence was chosen for performance at the Edward Albee Theatre Conference in June 2000. A published poet and short-story writer, Backer lives in New Hampshire.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0425230090
ISBN 13 
9780425230091
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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