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A true novel

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A remaking of Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune.

Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and successdespite racial and class prejudiceand an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life.

A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan's westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

The winner of Japan's prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

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1590515765 / 9781590515761
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895.636
12/11/2013
English
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800 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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