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Chargement... My Name Is Sei Shonagonpar Jan Blensdorf
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An interesting look at Japanese culture. ( ) An interesting novel set in modern day Japan, with links to the country's past. The writing is very poetic, though the narrative can only really be described as 'wishy-washy'. A young girl grows up in America, but when her American father dies she and her Japanese mother relocate to Japan. She is soon left to the mercy of her horrible uncle, from whom she inherits a incense shop. She also creates a life reading to men from behind a curtain. Yes, it is as strange as it sounds. A meditation on modern and traditional Japan, this is a book that doesn't live up to its potential. Perhaps a bit more editing would not have gone astray. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Who is Sei Shonagon? The tenth-century author of THE PILLOW BOOK? A woman of mixed-race parentage, surviving life in modern Japan? Or a voice from behind the screen, reaching across centuries, linking them both? Just off a fashionable street in the upbeat heart of contemporary Tokyo, lies a fragment of another age - an old incense shop. Above it, in a room furnished with nothing but a simple paper screens, guests comes to speak with the woman known as Sei Shonagon, hoping to find answers to the mysteries of their own bizarre lives. Jan Blensdorf's exquisite first novel tells the story of one woman's fascination with the conflicting aspects of her society- its respect for simplicity and the natural world, lying alongside the pressures of manic consumerism; its public emphasis on formal language and behaviour contrasting with the private worlds of sexual deviation and excess. Confined to a hospital bed, hovering on the edge of consciousness, the narrator recalls her early childhood, and how the death of her American father led her to accompany her Japanese mother to Tokyo and an existence dominated by a traditionally-minded uncle. Struggling against cold indifference, 'Sei Shonagon' seeks out comfort wherever she can find it - whether in her memories, or in traditional Japanese culture. As she grow older, the need to understand what she sees around her becomes a personal odyssey that affects the lives of everyone she encounters. As beautiful as a Haiku, as gripping as a psychological thriller, MY NAME IS SEI SHONAGON introduces a new writer of major talent. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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