Title: A gesture life
Description: The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman. — "Not since Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day has there been a novel so attentive to the interplay of dark memory and light manners...a beautiful, solitary, remarkably tender book."-New York Times Book Review

"Exceptional...A beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it."--Christian Science Monitor

"A Gesture Life is the touching, multi layered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable...a deeply involving tale."-Chicago Tribune
Subjects: Koreans, Adoptees, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Comfort women, Japanese Americans, Medical care, Psychic trauma, Retirees, Women, Large type books, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, New york (state), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: Japan, Korea, New York (State)