The broken bridge
Subtitle: fiction from expatriates in literary Japan
By: edited by Suzanne Kamata ; introduction by Donald Richie.
Contributors: Kamata, Suzanne, 1965-
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century; English fiction -- 20th century; Americans -- Japan -- Fiction; British -- Japan -- Fiction; Short stories, American; Short stories, English; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: A collection of stories on Japan written by foreigners. In Donald Richie's Six Encounters, two Japanese women debate the pros and cons of marrying a foreigner, while Michiko's House by Meira Chand is on a Japanese mother's despair at seeing her children adopt the crass ways of their American father.