Silver Spoon - Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan

Informationen zum Autor Kansuke Naka (1885?1965) was a Japanese poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a student of the great novelist Soseki Natsume, who lavishly praised the ?freshness and dignity” of Naka’s prose and encouraged the first publication of The Silver Spoon. Hiroaki Sato is a writer, reviewer, and translator with over forty works of classical and modern Japanese poetry, prose, and fiction published in English. He has received the PEN American Center Translation Prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He lives in New York City and writes a monthly column on politics and society for the Japan Times. Klappentext Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett). Zusammenfassung Japan's most beloved memoir! from the early 20th century! "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett). Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1Part 2Notes

Product details

• Authors: Kansuke Naka
• Assisted by: Hiroaki Sato (Translation)
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2015
• EAN: 9781611720198
• ISBN: 978-1-61172-019-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan : Berichte, Erinnerungen, Kindheit : Berichte, Erinnerungen