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A collection of chilling tales of contemporary Japan that mingle the diversity and pace of modern society with traditional tales of ghosts, fantasy and horror, to create a shadowy world in which life and death are matters of perspective and love and sexual desire last beyond the grave.
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Advance praise for Ghost of a Smile:
"This book of love 'n' ghosts is brilliant, and funny, and kind. It's also very much alive, for while its ghosts are as old as the hills, their love lives are as fresh and juicy as today's persimmons." (Francis Huxley, author of The Dragon and The Eye)
Praise for A Zen Romance, a memoir by the same author:
"Her descriptions I drip with lush sensuality. She is one of the wittiest observers of the Japanese scene that I have read." (Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books)
"Boehm's witty prose is rich, evocative, and utterly convincing, giving the reader a nuanced yet seemingly spontaneous, frank record of her experiences. Boehm avoids the pitfall of trying to overawe us with Zen wisdom and instead gives us her own eloquent sense of elusive, fleeting Zen moments and her attempts to grasp the ungraspable." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Bursting with energy, this is a wonderful West-meets-and-falls-in-love-with-East story that is hard to put down." (Sasuga News and Reviews)
"Funny- entertaining and delightful- A great escape." (Kansai Time Out)
About the Author
Deborah Boliver Boehm is an award-winning travel writer, specializing in Japan, Hawaii, and other Pacific islands. A former magazine editor and sumo reporter, she is the author of A Zen Romance (Kodansha International) and translator of The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi (Soho Press). She spent several years living in Tokyo and Kyoto, and has visited Japan more than thirty times. She now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was born.
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- PublisherKodansha International Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 4770025319
- ISBN 13 9784770025319
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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