The Soil - (Voices from Asia) by Takashi Nagatsuka (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era.
- About the Author: Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford.
- 222 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, General
- Series Name: Voices from Asia
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Book Synopsis
Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a period of years are drawn from life.Review Quotes
"This richly detailed novel is both fascinating and informative. Credit must also go to Ann Waswo for so effectively rendering this textured and lively portrait of a vanished past so vividly in English."--Francis Bosha, "Mainichi Daily News
About the Author
Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 222
Series Title: Voices from Asia
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Takashi Nagatsuka
Language: English
Street Date: January 29, 1994
TCIN: 92586037
UPC: 9780520083721
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-3212
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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