Hut of Fallen Persimmons (Americas) (The Americas) - Hardcover

Lisboa, Adriana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896727211 ISBN 13: 9780896727212

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 2011

Synopsis

"A journey to Japan seen through the eyes of two Brazilians: Haruki and Celina. Through a counterpoint of narration and text, and with reference to haiku by seventeenth-century master Matsuo Basho, the pair's losses and struggles unfold"--Provided by publisher.

About this title

About the Author:

Adriana Lisboa, born in Rio de Janeiro, holds degrees in music and literature and has worked as a flautist, Brazilian Jazz singer, and music teacher. The author of eleven books, including six novels and a collection of short stories, she was awarded the Jose Saramago Prize in 2003 for Sinfonia em branco (Symphony in White, TTUP, 2009). Her books have been published in France, Italy, Sweden, and Mexico, among other countries, and she has translated into Portuguese such authors as Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson. She currently lives in Colorado.Sarah Green, who holds degrees from the University of Texas and Stanford University, is a translator and interpreter based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."

From the Inside Flap:

In a station of the metro in Rio de Janeiro, where both live, illustrator Haruki and artisan Celina meet by chance--and soon decide, however improbably, to travel together to Japan. Their shared destination: the famous Rakushisha, or Hut of Fallen Persimmons, where seventeenth-century haiku master Matsuo Bash? once stayed. Their trip to Kyoto provides a context for each to meditate on the past, their feelings for each other, and questions of cultural difference. Through a counterpoint of narration and text, the pair's losses and struggles gradually unfold.
Bash?'s haiku brilliantly mold the novel's structure. Bash?'s translator in Brazil, readers learn, is Haruki's great unrequited love, and Celina's sad eyes conceal a tragedy in her own life. In this exquisitely woven novel, meant to be cradled in both hands as the Japanese might hold a precious object, the characters' every gesture, reflection, and self-revelation are manifest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0896727211
• ISBN 13: 9780896727212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160