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First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodge...

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Uniform title:Sasamakura.
Author / Creator: Maruya, Saiichi, 1925-2012.
Other Authors / Creators:Keene, Dennis, 1934-2007.
Formatua: eBook Baliabide elektronikoa
Hizkuntza:English
Japanese
Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Saila:Pacific Basin Institute book.
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Gaia:First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day.

First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day events force into the light, confronting him with unexpected consequences of his refusal to conform twenty years earlier.

Alearen deskribapena:Print version record.
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (345 pages)
ISBN:0231501579
9780231501576
Notas de Autor:Saiichi Maruya is an award-winning and highly popular novelist, translator, and critic. He was born in the town of Tsuruoka, Japan in 1925, and was conscripted into the army at the age of nineteen during World War II. His novel Singular Rebellion was published in English in 1986 to critical acclaim. Maruya's translation of James Joyce's Ulysses is considered the definitive Japanese edition. He lives in Tokyo
Dennis Keene is one of the most respected translators of Japanese literature today. He has translated several of Maruya's books