num_pages: 854
description: A remaking of Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s where we meet Taro a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan his eventual rise to wealth and successdespite racial and class prejudiceand an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japans westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japans prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize Mizumura has written a beautiful novel with love at its core that reveals above all the power of storytelling.
language: English
title: A True Novel: A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
publisher: Other Press