The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880656310 ISBN 13: 9781880656310

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, 1998

Synopsis

Absorbing fiction from Outsiders in a land that does not absorb foreigners easily.

About this title

Synopsis:

This collection of short stories, by non-Japanese living in Japan, looks at the outsider in a nation that does not absorb foreigners easily. It contains tales from the period after the Occupation to the present day, from 26 writers who include Alan Brown, John Haylock, Alex Kerr, and James Kirkup.

About the Author:

Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1880656310
• ISBN 13: 9781880656310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Kamata Suzanne