The City of Yes - Softcover

Oliva, Peter

 
9780771068614: The City of Yes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0771068611 ISBN 13: 9780771068614
Verlag: McClelland & Stewart, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Alive with history, myth, and wonder, The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-century Canadian adventurer, whose strange confinement in a Japanese prison, beginning in 1848, is so vividly imagined by the narrator. Full of delightful tales and eccentric characters, and written with the delicacy of a brushstroke artist, The City of Yes is suffused with warm humour, and with the intelligence and curiosity of a keen observer of life’s riches and eccentricities.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Oliva was born in Eugene, Oregon, and grew up in Canada and Italy. The City of Yes (1999) was the winner of the F.G. Bressani Prize, the Georges Bugnet Award, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Oliva’s previous novel, Drowning in Darkness (1993), was also highly acclaimed and was listed as one of the four “most technically and imaginatively accomplished novels produced between 1983 and 1996” by the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Both novels were named as an Editor’s Choice by the Globe &
Mail.

Presently, Oliva writes for numerous magazines and newspapers. He is at
work on his next novel.

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Alive with history, myth, and wonder, "The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-century Canadian adventurer, whose strange confinement in a Japanese prison, beginning in 1848, is so vividly imagined by the narrator. Full of delightful tales and eccentric characters, and written with the delicacy of a brushstroke artist, "The City of Yes is suffused with warm humour, and with the intelligence and curiosity of a keen observer of life's riches and eccentricities.

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Verlag
McClelland & Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0771068611
ISBN 13 
9780771068614
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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