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(*)(Translated by Mary Goebel Noguchi) ()(LNI-0031L es mismo libro. ÄJÓÝq[1930-] Titulo original : t@~[rWlX[famirii bijinesu, 1998] This book collects two novellas by the noted Japanese painter : LFamily BusinessL andL1,001 Fires RagingL. In the first, Megumi -like the author, a long-time resident of the United States- pays a visit to her now eighty-seven-year-old mother in Japan. After so many years living abroad, Megumi simply canLt understand contemporary Japan, so when her nephew runs away from home, and her elderly mother gives chase, Megumi finds herself having to relearn Japanese survival skills in an effort to bring them home safely. InL1,001 Fires RagingL, another Japanese-American woman, Yu, has been living in California for decades -which makes it all the more painful that sheLs just as subject to discrimination now as ever. When, in the wake of the Rodney King trial, LALs African American population begins to riot, Yu learns just how much damage exclusion can do- finding it even within her own family.@Foumiko Kometani was born in Osaka in 1930. A longtime resident of the US, she began her career as an abstract painter before turning to writing. She won the Akutagawa Prize in 1985 and the WomenLs Prize for Literature in 1998 for LFamily BusinessL.) |
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