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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; 1994 University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, Hawaii), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, blue endpapers, [4], 155 pp. Very slight soiling to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a moderately rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Uncommon. ~KK~ [1.5P] Milton Atsushi Murayama (1923-2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he is perhaps best remembered for his 1975 All I Asking for Is My Body, which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II. Here, Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction-to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to the resilient Oyama family. Five Years on a Rock is the story of Sawa Oyama, the mother who plays a major role in All I Asking for Is My Body. In a spirited voice full of courage and wit, Sawa tells of her arrival in Hawaii in 1915 as a seventeen-year-old picture bride. But her hope of returning to Japan after 'five years on a rock' wanes as the five years stretch to twenty, during which six children are born, her husband's fishing business succeeds then fails, and the family debt grows.
