{"product_id":"9781737625308-the-thorn-puller","title":"Ito Hiromi - The Thorn Puller - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Thorn Puller\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Ito Hiromi\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Stone Bridge Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781737625308\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 300 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 12\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Fiction In Translation","brand":"Ito Hiromi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623102488881,"sku":"IN-G-9781737625308","price":16.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781737625308.jpg?v=1724776402","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781737625308-the-thorn-puller","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}