9780679425540 - The Brothers: The Hidden World of Japan's Richest Family von Downer, Lesley (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st U.S. ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First U.S. edition. New York: Random House, (c. 1994). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo, xxvii + 418 pages. A quarter-sized water spot on rear cover and corresponsding spot on inside of dutjacket - not visible on the outside of dust jacket. A bit of browning to dust jacket at folds, and price clipped, still Very Good. 103010A.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A Japanese business family, the Tsutsumis, akin to robber barons built an empire based on vast real estate buildings and then diversified to reach everywhere in Japan. Unlike business school teaching, this is how business and politics are really done in Japan. Dust jacket. 420 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £13.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Random House, 1995. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new with a small bump to the top back corner. Dust jacket is like new and price clipped.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. 418pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First U.S. Edition [stated[. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price-clipped. xxvii, [1], 418, [2] pages. Map. Select Bibliography. Notes. Index. Ms. Downer is an author, journalist and historian. She has written many books, non-fiction and more recently fiction, about Japan. As a journalist and author she has given lectures - at the Japan Society, Asia House, the Royal Geographic Society, the British Museum, the Japan Society in New York and Japan Societies and Asia Societies across the US and the UK . She is the historical consultant for Northern Ballet's spectacular 2020 ballet Geisha. She has also been a visiting lecturer, teaching on the MA programme in Creative Writing (non-fiction) at City University in London. The Brothers was chosen as a New York Times 'Book of the Year'. This is the epic story of two generations of the Tsutsumi family, famous in Japan for their fabled wealth. At the heart of it are three men: the roguish father who built the family fortune before and during World War II; the illegitimate son who inherited it and turned it into a multi million dollar empire; and the spurned legitimate son - rebel, poet, one-time communist - who inherited a single run-down department store which he used as the basis of an empire of style. The Tsutsumis are one of Japan's greatest dynasties and, like the Rockefellers or Getty's in the west, have achieved a near-mythic status. Theirs is the ultimate rags-to-riches tale, a drama of cut throat business intrigues and ties of honor, family rivalry and the trials of wives and concubines, set against the turbulent background of Japan in the twentieth century. Lesley Downer gained unprecedented access to the Tsutsumi family and those close to them. Here is a unique window on vast wealth and power Japanese style, taking us beyond the stereotype of pinstriped drones to a sweeping drama of Shakespearian proportions.