A true novel
By: Minae Mizumura ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Contributors: Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 854
ISBN-13: 9781590512036; 9781590515761
Subjects: Rich people; Japanese; Fiction
Work titles: Honkaku Shosetsu
Description: "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 success--despite racial and class prejudice--and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. [The book] then widens into an examination of Japans westernization and the emergence of a middle class"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation from the Japanese of: Honkaku shosetsu.

In slipcase (23 cm.).