Talking to High Monks in the Snow : An Asian-American Odyssey Paperback - 1993
by Lydia Y. Minatoya
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- Title Talking to High Monks in the Snow : An Asian-American Odyssey
- Author Lydia Y. Minatoya
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060923725I4N00
- ISBN 9780060923723 / 0060923725
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.36 x 0.68 in (20.22 x 13.61 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050450
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
"I believe that the Japanese word for wife literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother.
From the rear cover
In a voice at once penetrating and humorous, vulnerable and wise, Lydia Minatoya takes us on an evocative exploration of cultural identity that starts with her childhood of ethnic isolation in upstate New York in the fifties, as she listens to her parents' astonishing and affecting tales of her Japanese heritage. These stories of the silk-and-shadow world of a samurai family, of immigration and internment, and of spiritual transcendence later propel her outward on her own geographic and emotional journey--from patrician New England to Japan, China, and Nepal--in a search to understand her Asian-ness and its place in a complex American identity.
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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2004, Page 1695