OLIVA, PETER

The City of Yes

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 1999, Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 0771068611) Soft cover. Book, "Advanced Reading Copy from uncorrected proofs" Alive with history, myth and wonder, The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-century Canadian adventurer, whose strange confinement in a Japanese prison, beginning in 1848, is so vividly imagined by the narrator. Full of delightful tales and eccentric characters, and written with the delicacy of a brushstroke artist, The City of Yes is suffused with warm humour, and with the intelligence and curiosity of a keen observer of life's riches and eccentricities. The City of Yes won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 1999. 335p. Fine.

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Book number: 043927

Catalogue: Japan - Fiction

Keywords: 0771068611 Fiction Japan Canadian Writers Canadian Writers

TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO

A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (Japan's Modern Writers)

Tokyo, Kodansha International. 1990, First Thus. (ISBN: 0870117556) Hardcover. Ex-Library, "A small masterpiece, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women is a novel about loneliness, love, and companionship of the most unexpected kind. In this story of Japanese society and manners, Tanizaki gives us a perfectly-formed oddball comedy, and a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline. " Translated by Paul McCarthy, Professor of Comparative Cultures at Surugadai University. This translation of A Cat, a Man, and Two Women won the Japan-America Friendship Commission Prize in 1991. 164p.Neat tight copy ffep missing, Library labels on fjdj. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 35670

Catalogue: Japan - Fiction

Keywords: 0870117556 Japanese Literature Short Stories