A Novel Of Contemporary Japan Tatematsu, Wahei Primary Author Howell, Lawrence J. Translator Morimoto, Hikaru Translator mixed material bibliography Tokyo Charles E. Tuttle Company 1999 Inggris

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11 x 18 cm / 263 pg Set in rural Japan at the height of the bubble economy, Distant Thunder tells of a farming village gradually effaced by urbanization, corruption, and greed. After Matsuzo Wada has sold off the family's lands and left his wife for another woman, his son Mitsuo is determined to support himself and his mother in the traditional manner, farming. All that remains of his ancestors' lands is a hothouse, in which he grows tomatoes to sell to the housewives from the nearby apartment complex, built on a former rice field. When his childhood friend, Koji, becomes entangled in an adulterous love affair which ultimately destroys him and those around him, Mitsuo begins to see how the town's hedonistic excesses are laying to waste not only the landscape, but also the communal and familial bonds and the values that once sustained them all. Sastra Jepang 895.6 / TAT / d 0804821208 Perpustakaan Ordo Karmel Indonesia Indonesian Carmelite Order Library A16725 A16725-C1 My Library A16725 28.316..jpg 202270 2014-04-10 10:38:57 2023-03-28 11:10:31 machine generated