Turning Japanese - Memoirs of a Sansei (Paperback, 1st Grove Press ed)

Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	David Mura
Dimensions:	209 x 135 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	1st Grove Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-4239-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-8021-4239-7
Barcode:	9780802142399

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