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By Loh, Vyvyanec2004., W.W. Norton Call No: Fic Loh Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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c2010., Adult, Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West Call No: Fic Oe Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to examine and reexamine Goro's life for clues that will lead him to understand his friend's path.
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2010., Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: BLK Fic Laf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book : I am a Japanese writer. For the writer, though, the title isn't just a title: he really does believe he is a Japanese writer. He makes this declaration in a mall, and, the next thing he knows, he's an international celebrity. But things go quickly wrong.
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2008., Criterion Collection Call No: DVD Bio M678s Edition: Special ed.; Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) Volume: 432.Summary Note: A look at acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, the impossible harmony he created between self, art, and society, and his famously committed public seppuku (ritual suicide). Includes interviews, commentary, documentary, and more.
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[2012], c2011., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: Fic Ita Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bin Okuma, a celebrated visual artist, has recently and quite suddenly lost his wife, Lena. He and his son Greg are left to deal with the shock. But Greg has returned to his studies on the east coast, and Bin finds himself alone. His deep grief draws him into memories he has avoided for much of his life: the uprooting of his Japanese Canadian family from the west coast of British Columbia during the Second World War. Now, he sets out to drive across the country, to revisit the places that have shaped him, to find his First Father who has been lost to him. Years ago, his father made a fateful decision that severed the bonds of his family. Running from grief, Bin must ask himself whether he really wants to find his father or whether his bitterness will separate them forever.Requiem is a stunning and graceful novel, a story of family secrets, racial strife, birth and death, and the saving grace of art.