The Breaking Jewel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
Contributors: Donald Keene (Translator)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780231126120
Subjects: Modern fiction; Second World War fiction; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; Law; ASIA; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Asian - General
First sentence: glances back and forth between Kon to Nakamura as if comparing the two men. A weird-looking bird that nested in the jungle passed overhead, emitting eerie squawks, each time more sharply penetrating, a strange cry like the holing of an infant.