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The Thorn Puller (Paperback)
Hiromi Ito; Translated by Jeffrey Angles
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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu
Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who
has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada. 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.
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by
acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito—part nature writing, part
travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between
April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a
non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can
be read as a companion piece to Ito’s beloved poem "Wild Grass on
the Riverbank". Rather than the vertiginously violent poetics of
the latter, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call
a phyto-autobiography: a recounting of one’s life through the
logic of flora. Ito’s graciously potent and philosophical prose
examines immigration, language, gender, care work, and death, all
through her close (indeed, at times obsessive) attention to plant
life.
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