Книга: Jan Blensdorf «My Name is Sei Shonagon»
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Производитель: "Vintage" Blensdorf, an Australian journalist, spins two years she spent in Tokyo into a brief, poetic novel about a Japanese-American woman's search for herself amid displacement, tragedy and cultural conflict. I don't know what it is that is broken, muses the narrator at the novel's opening. Only that I slip in and out of a mental wakefulness that can't translate itself to speech, to movement . Confined to a hospital bed, she recounts her tumultuous family history, starting with the sudden death of her American father when the family was living in New York. The girl and her mother return to Japan to live with the girl's uncle, a dark brute with little patience for American ways. She recalls her study of calligraphy and painting, and her mother's unhappiness and eventual suicide, weaving in memories of a more recent past, in which she inherits the family's incense shop and becomes the de facto confessor of her troubled clients, shielded by a screen and the nom de guerre Sei Shonagon, the... ISBN:0-09-945903-5 Издательство: "Vintage" (2004)
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