The thorn puller
Hiromi Ito ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.
Bok Engelsk Hiromi Itō,· Domestic fiction
| Medvirkende | Angles, Jeffrey, (translator.)
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| Utgitt | Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (300 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Ito returns to Japan and finds herself in a real pinch -- Mother leads Ito from Iwanosaka toward Sugamo -- Ito crosses the ocean and the slope of the underworld, throwing peaches -- The peach Ito threw rots, and she becomes a beast once again -- Evil flourishes, but Ito encounters Jizo in broad daylight -- Ito goes on a journey, making a pilgrimage to Yuda Hot Springs -- With tongue intact, Sparrow chases the old woman away -- The rainy season continues, and Mother suffers on her deathbed -- Ito travels west, blooms, and then wilts away -- Fishing with cormorants, Ito hears of the merits of coming and going -- Oh, ears! Listen to the sound of sadness trickling in the urinal -- Smoke rises from Urashima on a clear autumn day -- A lump is removed, Ito meets a demon and the sparrow-dog devotees -- Ito again finds herself in a real pinch and dashes through darkness for her child -- Driven by despair, the female followers of the thorn puller attack Ito's husband -- Good and bad ways of dying, a poet stares death in the face -- Ito grows ill, a bird transforms into a blossom, and the giant trees stay unchanged.. - Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize. Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been described as a "shaman of poetry" because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera--part poetry, part prose, part epic--a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the "thorns" of human suffering.
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| ISBN | 1-7376253-1-8
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