The Thorn Puller

The Thorn Puller
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Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781737625315
ISBN-13 : 1737625318
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Book Synopsis The Thorn Puller by : Hiromi Ito

Download or read book The Thorn Puller written by Hiromi Ito and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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