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Grass for My Pillow Hardcover - 2002
by Saiichi Maruya; Dennis Keene (Translator)
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How much money should he send to her funeral?
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- Title Grass for My Pillow
- Author Saiichi Maruya; Dennis Keene (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y.
- Date 2002-08-27
- ISBN 9780231126588 / 0231126581
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 6.42 x 1.19 in (20.78 x 16.31 x 3.02 cm)
- Reading level 1270
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002017549
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2002, Page 1350
- New Yorker (The), 11/11/2002, Page 189
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New York. 2002. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0231126581. Translated from the Japanese by Dennis Keene. 345 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Linda Secondari. Jacket image: Atomic Bomb. keywords: Literature Japan Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in Japan during and after the Second World War, GRASS FOR MY PILLOW is the story of Shokichi Hamada, a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler until the end of the war in 1945. Twenty years later, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day events force into the light, confronting him with unexpected consequences of his refusal to conform. Maruya's masterpiece is an unusual story of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. First published in Japanese in 1966, this debut novel by the…
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Columbia University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Very Good. Hardcover. 345 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Columbia University Press, 2002. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Text and spine/cover marked with Library stamps, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in…
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