The first memoir of a Japanese-American of this generation, Turning Japanese chornicles a quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision. Turning Japanese will long stand as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own.
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The first memoir of a Japanese-American of this generation, Turning Japanese chornicles a quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision. Turning Japanese will long stand as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own.
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Near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by author on first free endpaper. Stated 1st printing. Dust jacket as new. Book has slight shelfwear to base of spine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 376 p. Audience: General/trade. By the NEA Fellow author of 'Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity' and 'Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Good, good. 376, some wear and soiling to DJ, book is slightly shaken/cocked. The first memoir of a Japanese-American of this generation, Turning Japanese chornicles a quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision. Turning Japanese will long stand as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Painfully honest, acutely political, Mura's memoir dismantles and reconstructs with passionate self-scrutiny what it means to be Japanese and American.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. 376 pages. First Edition. Memoirs of a Sansei (a third generation Japanese-American). St. Paul writer Mura spends a year in present-day Japan and reconstructs his past. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by Mura.
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Almost like new. Stated first printing. Large yellow on gray softcover with illustrated cover published in 1991 by Atlantic Monthly Press. Slightest wear otherwise like new. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
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