num_pages: 384
description: Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal.
language: English
title: East Is East
titlecomplete: East Is East (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Japan, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 2617
publisher: Penguin Books