| Grass for My Pillow Contributor(s): Maruya, Saiichi (Author), Keene, Dennis (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231126581 ISBN-13: 9780231126588 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $41.58 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002017549 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Series: Modern Asian Literature (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.42" W x 8.18" (1.25 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |