Lake of heaven
Subtitle: an original translation of the Japanese novel
By: by Ishimure Michiko ; translated by Bruce Allen.
Contributors: Allen, Bruce, 1949-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780739124628; 9780739124635; 9780739131374
Work titles: Tenko.
Description: "Lake of Heaven is the story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to retain their traditional culture - including their stories, dances, music, mythology, and dreams - in the face of displacement, environmental destruction, and rapid modernization. Although fictional, the work is rooted in the events of actual villages in the mountains of Kyushu and Ishimure's imaginative reconstructions of their people's tales. Lake of Heaven considerably stretches the familiar Western conceptions of the novel form. Its interweaving of local stories, dreams, and myths lends it a deep sense of the Noh Drama."--BOOK JACKET.