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Cargando... One Hundred and One Ways (edición 2000)por Mako Yoshikawa
Información de la obraOne Hundred and One Ways por Mako Yoshikawa
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is one of my favorite books. ( ) Here we have another book about love - love not only between men and women, but also love between mothers and daughters. So far so ordinary, you might think. After all, what is a novel without some kind of relationship? And, as usual, love must never come easy. Thus the relationships in this novel are all fraught with failures to communicate. However, this debut novel breaks some new ground, and the narrative is “masterfully” written. (Sorry, but I can’t think of the “mot juste.”) The story is told from the first-person perspective of Yukiko “Kiki” Takehashi, a doctoral student living in New York City. She is recovering from the death of one boyfriend, Phillip, and trying to have a normal relationship with her fiancé, Eric, whom she suspects of having a “Asian girl fetish.” In between the episodes that she relates about her life, she also tells us about her namesake, her grandmother Yukiko, who lived the life of a geisha in Japan before the Second World War. And we also learn about Grandmother Yukiko’s daughter and Kiki’s mother, Akiko, who is living frozen in time due to being abandoned by her husband, Kiki’s father, whom she had run away to marry against her mother’s wishes. In addition to the cross-cultural, cross-continental, time-spanning stories being related, there is also an element of magical realism. Phillip has come back from the dead and appears sporadically, but persistently, in Kiki’s apartment. What does he want? Why doesn’t he speak to her? Why can’t she release her memories of him so that she can pursue a normal life? Kiki dreams about meeting her grandmother someday, and as she dreams she thinks of all the things she would like to say to her and ask her. One of these questions is: “What price a woman’s life, if all it consists of is loving one man forever?” Later she reflects on the “bleak possibility that all is not perfect in the best of all possible loves; that in the happiest of all marriages, regret is still a fact, sacrifice still a necessity.” All in all, a very entertaining first book, and now I am off to find her second novel, “Once Removed,” published a few years after this one. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:"I have spent most of my life in New Jersey, but the blood of a geisha courses through me yet." If Kiki Takehashi's life is dramatically different from that of her reserved Japanese-American mother, it is light-years away from that of her grandmother, whom she knows only through old family stories. Kiki has recently become engaged to Eric, a handsome, successful New York City lawyer. But at the same time she is haunted--quite literally--by the memory of her friend Phillip, killed the previous year in a mountaineering accident. Kiki has never met her grandmother Yukiko, for whom she is named. Still, thoroughly American though she is, she feels a secret kinship with her. Kiki is swept up by the story of this strong, proud, passionate woman who, against all odds, in a time and place far different from her own, was sold by her impoverished family, became a famous geisha, and found the love that has so far eluded the rest of the Takehashi women. Lyrical, haunting, and stunningly evocative, One Hundred and One Ways introduces a powerful and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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