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When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor's office watching Japanese films; at night he immerses himself in the sensual pleasures of Tokyo.
His job leads him into the circle of the beautiful film star Shirley Yamaguchi, a passionate and indomitable woman, whose wartime secrets hint at deception and betrayal. As he becomes increasingly aware of her story, it seems to point at the dark heart of Japan itself.
In The China Lover, Ian Buruma has created a saga of modern Japan that is epic in scale, richly imagined and vividly populated. It is quite simply unforgettable.
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At once sophisticated and earthy, The China Lover opens a kaleidoscopic window onto a Japan rarely seen or acknowledged by the West. Ian Buruma makes one woman's extraordinary life the locus for a brilliantly sharp-eyed and resonant look at the converging arenas of war, politics, film, and erotic fantasy. A captivating novel. -- John Burnham Schwartz, author
Buruma's far-ranging knowledge of the wrenching transformations of the Japanese worldview in the twentieth century make this a deeply fascinating novel. -- Liza Dalby, author of Geisha
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Buruma's far-ranging knowledge of the wrenching transformations of the Japanese worldview in the twentieth century make this a deeply fascinating novel. -- Liza Dalby, author of Geisha
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in New York state. His previous books include God's Dust, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania and Murder in Amsterdam, which won athe Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest Book and was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the recipient of the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honoured him for his distinguished body of work, and the 2008 Erasmus Prize.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1843549042
- ISBN 13 9781843549048
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