Ito Hiromi - The Thorn Puller - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize Caught between two cultures award - winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging death and suffering with dark humor illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive. 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.
Title: The Thorn Puller
Author(s): Ito Hiromi
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Barcode: 9781737625308
Pages: 300 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/13/2022
Category: Fiction In Translation